Tom Piazza

Tom Piazza (* 1955) is an American writer.

Tom Piazza lives in New Orleans . From 1998 to 2001 he was a columnist for the Oxford American's for Southern Music and won numerous awards as Music Writer and literary. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, his work dealt with the social change in New Orleans after this natural disaster. Why New Orleans Matters , published by Regan Books in New York in 2006, wrote immediately after the hurricane and was awarded the 2006 Humanities Book of the Year Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities . In 2008 he published his novel City of Refuge about the fate of two families since Hurricane Katrina. With the short story collection Blues and Trouble he won the James Michener Award . He won the Faulkner Society Award with the novel My Cold War . As a music writer, he won the 2004 Grammy Award for the album Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey .

Works

• Why New Orleans Matters. Regan Books, New York.
• My cold war
• City of Refuge, Novel 2008
• Blues and Trouble (short story collection)
• Why New Orleans Matters , 2006, Regan Books

literature

• Sebastian Moll: New Orleans: No electricity, no water, no schools. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of August 29, 2008. [1]

Web links

• tompiazza.com