W T Tyler

W.T. Tyler (pen name of Samuel J. Hamrick, Jr.) drew on a twenty-year career as a US State Department analyst in Africa and the Middle East for his novels of Cold War diplomacy and disillusionment. With a gifted ear for dialogue and an artist's eye for painting a scene, Tyler's novels chronicle ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. He died in 2008 at the age of seventy-eight.

W.T. Tyler (pen name of Samuel J. Hamrick, Jr.) drew on a twenty-year career as a US State Department analyst in Africa and the Middle East for his novels of Cold War diplomacy and disillusionment. With a gifted ear for dialogue and an artist's eye for painting a scene, Tyler's novels chronicle ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. He died in 2008 at the age of seventy-eight. See less