John J. Fry

John J. Fry was born in Pittsburgh and raised on a farm in Western Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. in history, specializing in rural history and the American West, is from the University of Iowa. He has taught at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois since 2003, and he became Dean of Faculty in 2022. His previous books are The Farm Press, Reform, and Rural Change: 1895-1920 (2005) and Almost Pioneers: One Couple’s Homesteading Adventure in the West (2013). He lives a block south of Chicago in Blue Island, Illinois, with his wife Paula.