Person

Tuleja, Tad

1944

Son of a U.S. naval officer. A folklorist and freelance writer of more than thirty books. He is the recipient of a Puffin Foundation grant for his war song cycle "Skein of Arms" and the author of the essay "Brotherhood of the Sea," which appears in War, Literature, and the Arts. Born in New Jersey in 1944, Tad Tuleja earned a B.A. in European cultural history from Yale University and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Sussex. He has been a college writing instructor, journalist, editor, and encyclopedia researcher as well as the author (or co-author) of twenty-five books. His several reference works include books on word lore, popular beliefs, and social custom. Not same as Thaddeus V. Tuleja