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Thomas J. Morrow
Thomas J. Morrow lived in Nebraska and Iowa during his youth. His great-grandparents homesteaded on a sand hills farm around the turn-of-the 20th century, living in a “Soddie” in Box Butte County north of Scottsbluff. Most of his formative years were spent in Seymour, Iowa some 7 miles north of the Missouri border, 180 miles east of the Missouri River and Nebraska.
For most of World War
II, the Morrow family lived in Lincoln where
his
father worked as a foreman at the Goodyear Rubber Company’s Havelock
plant where rubber gas tanks for the B-29 super fortress bombers were
built.
Traveling between Lincoln and Seymour along state Highway No. 2, the Morrow family would pass the huge Prisoner of War Camp Clarinda near the southwester Iowa community of Clarinda. Although just a small child at the time, the Tom well remembers his mother pointing out the German POWs working in the fields near the highway, saying, “Look, Tommy, see the Nazis over there!”
Tom graduated from high school in Seymour, Iowa, and through the years earned three college degrees.
For the past 40 years, he has enjoyed life as a newspaper reporter and editor, with nearly 20 years spent as the daily community columnist for the North County Times in Oceanside, just north of San Diego, California.
He maintains his Nebraska roots through his sister, Linda Morrow Johnson, who is a retired elementary school teacher living in Kearney. Other than the leading German and American historical figures, all characters in his first three novels are fictional. As an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, Tom interviewed dozens of Allied and German combat veterans of World War II while doing research for his books. From their stories comes the “Nebraska Doppelganger, The Secret at Beckham Manor and The Beacon on Kill Devil Hill.”
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