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Thorne Webb Dreyer (born August 1, 1945) is an American writer, editor, publisher, and political activist who played a major role in the 1960s-1970s counterculture, New Left, and underground press movements. Dreyer now lives in Austin, Texas, where he edits the progressive internet news magazine, ''The Rag Blog'', hosts Rag Radio on KOOP 91.7-FM, and is a director of the New Journalism Project. In June 2012 Dreyer topped a published list of Austin's most important political bloggers,〔Seale, Shelley, "("Election 2012: Keep up with Austin's top political bloggers" )''CultureMap Austin, June 2, 2012.〕 and in 2011 received the noted Eddy Award for best Austin radio personality. Dreyer was "an influential journalist in the underground press movement of the 1960s and early 1970s," according to the documentary encyclopedia, ''Conflicts in American History'', which included him in a series of 73 short biographies of key figures in "The Postwar and Civil Rights Era: 1945-1973" in the United States.〔 He was a founder and editor of two of the most important of the Sixties underground newspapers, ''The Rag'' in Austin and ''Space City!'' in Houston, was an editor at Liberation News Service (LNS) in New York, and managed Pacifica Radio's KPFT 90.1-FM in Houston. Thorne Dreyer was active in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the moving force in the 1960s New Left and perhaps the most important student-based activist organization in U.S. history. Dreyer's writing was published worldwide and his work has been cited or excerpted in more than 100 books. ==Family and early life== An only child, Dreyer was born in Houston, Texas, on August 1, 1945, the son of Martin Dreyer and Margaret Lee Webb. He attended Bellaire High School, where he studied theater with noted teacher and director Cecil Pickett – who later taught at the University of Houston and whose students included actors Dennis and Randy Quaid and Cindy Pickett. Dreyer later studied acting with William Hickey at New York's HB Studio, and briefly attended the University of Texas at Austin where he took liberal arts and theater courses. Dreyer's family was at the center of a large literary and activist community in Houston. His mother, Margaret Webb Dreyer, was an acclaimed artist, teacher, and peace activist – and a leading light in the local cultural scene—and his father, Martin Dreyer, was a fiction writer and long-time travel editor at the ''Houston Chronicle'' and was a winner of the national Big Story Award for "investigative journalism in the interest of justice." Sandra J. Levy, writing in the ''Archives of American Art Journal'', called Margaret Webb Dreyer "a moving force in Houston from the 1940s to the 1970s,"〔 and she is included in the University of Texas at Austin's Gallery of Great Texas Women〔(Gallery of Great Texas Women )〕 and her biography is featured at the Handbook of Texas Online.〔(The Handbook of Texas Online )〕 The couple owned and ran Dreyer Galleries, one of Houston's earliest and most prominent art galleries. According to ''Cite's'' Raj Mankad, Dreyer Galleries also "served as a countercultural hub,"〔 hosting art openings, political meetings, and social gatherings attended by Jane Fonda, Robert Altman, Warren Hinckle, and others. While in Houston, Thorne Dreyer engaged in an eclectic array of pursuits. He worked professionally as an actor, a freelance writer and editor, a political consultant, a correspondent for ''Texas Monthly'' magazine, a public information officer for the City of Houston, a booking agent for jazz and rock musicians, an event planner, and a bookseller—and for years operated a leading Houston public relations business. He has one son, Dustin Dreyer, who lives in Houston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thorne Webb Dreyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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