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Thomas Tryon

American
1926 – 1991
Thomas Lester Tryon was an American actor and novelist. As an actor, he was billed as Tom Tryon and is best known for playing the title role in the film The Cardinal (1963), featured roles in the war films The Longest Day (1962) and In Harm's Way (1965), acting with John Wayne in both movies, and especially the Walt Disney television character Texas John Slaughter (1958–1961). Tryon later turned to the writing of prose fiction and screenplays, and wrote several successful science fiction, horror and mystery novels as Thomas Tryon.
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Thomas Tryon's Lady is the third novel set in the fictional Connecticut village of Pequot Landing, following the New York Times bestseller The Other and Harvest Home. Narrated through the adoring eyes of a boy named Woody, it unspools as an unhurried portrait of 1930s American small-town life before pivoting to a deeply shadowed revelation about the elegant, mysterious Lady Harleigh. The novel sits in the tradition of richly atmospheric popular fiction — think Peyton Place and Kings Row — and rewards patient readers willing to let Tryon build his slow crescendo toward its genuinely surprising close.

Reviewed Apr 3, 2026

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