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James D. Snyder

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James D. Snyder, author of the newly-released Jonathan Dickinson, has won numerous awards for historical fiction novels ranging from the genesis of Christianity to the Spanish discovery of Florida to the story of a young woman caught up in high-stakes blockade-running during the Civil War. “The common thread among them,” he says, “is an effort to help the reader grasp the essence of a dramatic historical period through the lives of individuals who lived through it.”
In addition to his novels, author Snyder writes and speaks about the colorful history surrounding his home on the Loxahatchee River in South Florida. Five Thousand Years on the Loxahatchee is a pictorial history of Jupiter-Tequesta, FL while Black Gold and Silver Sands describe
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James D. Snyder Motivation for "The Music Makers" eminates from the summer of 2024 when I began keeping (and adding to) a list of possible ways that Donald Trump coul…moreMotivation for "The Music Makers" eminates from the summer of 2024 when I began keeping (and adding to) a list of possible ways that Donald Trump could shatter various democratic traditions and safeguards if re-elected. As Trump 2.0 unfolded, and these signs of unchecked autocracy began to materialize, I began writing a book, set in the East Berlin of 1989, to show how suffocating life can be for ordinary people when autocracy actually takes hold and is inevitably followed by dictatorship. I tried to make it any easy read for the millions of cellphone addicts who recoil at anything longer than an email. It's also a warning that history can repeat itself if the people of today have little or no memory of the past.


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Life and Death on the Loxah...

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Amelia's Gold

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The Faith and the Power: Th...

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The Cross and the Mask: How...

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"Amelia" Wins NYC Book Award

The New York City Big Book Award named Amelia’s Gold a “Distinguished Favorite” among its list of winners for new books released in 2020. The story of a young woman’s transforming adventure in the Civil War was cited for “overall excellence” in historical fiction.
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A much-needed first-time biography of the most prolific fiction writer of South Florida history. Many of his books were written as commercial pulp fiction, but others - such as The Barefoot Mailman and The Flame Tree deserve to be called classics abo ...more
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