Joseph Jay Deiss

Joseph Jay Deiss (1912–1999), an American author, businessman, historian and archaeologist, was born in Twin Falls, Idaho and graduated from the University of Texas, where he also received his master's degree.

Deiss was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, the son of Charlotte (Neilson) and Joseph John Deiss, a rancher.^[1] By location,^[2] he had three loves, Cape Cod, Italy, and Florida. With the proceeds from his first successful novel, Washington Story, he purchased the "Oysterman's Cottage" at Wellfleet, Massachusetts, mentioned by Henry David Thoreau in "Cape Cod Sketches".^[3]

Prior to his first novel, he worked in Washington, DC in Farm Tenancy under the New Deal.^[4] As a partner in the Medical Pharmaceutical and Information Bureau,^[5] Deiss expanded his career into "industrial public relations" with clients in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically Pfizer. As a result of his continuing interest in writing and in the history of Italy, he decided to give up his business partnership, and devote full-time to his writing, which resulted in his second novel, The Blue Chips, a novel about big business medicine.

In 1957 Deiss, living in Positano, Italy, began in depth research at museums and academic institutions in Germany, Austria, and Italy that led to his third work, a biographical novel, The Great Infidel, about Frederic the Second, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily. While Deiss was involved in his biographical novel of Frederic the Second, he was drawn to the ancient monument cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, spending time there since they were near his home in Positano.^[6] On becoming Vice Director of the American Academy in Rome, he actively started exploring these ancient cities. Out of this effort he wrote, Herculaneum, Italy's Buried Treasure. This was followed by Captains of Fortune, which consisted of profiles of six famous Italian Condottieri (soldiers of fortune) from the medieval period to the renaissance. The eclectic interests of Deiss in historical Italy finally led to his The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller.^[7]

في عام ١٩٧١، مُنح لقب فارس من قِبل حكومة إيطاليا تقديرًا لأعماله التاريخية المتعلقة بها. وفي سنواته الأخيرة، كرّس دايس وقته لكلٍ من كيب كود ومنزله في غينزفيل، فلوريدا، حيث كان أستاذًا مساعدًا في قسم الدراسات الكلاسيكية بجامعة فلوريدا . توفي جوزيف جاي دايس في ١٠ أبريل ١٩٩٩. وقد سبقته إلى الوفاة زوجته كاثرين (دوهوني)، ^{[ ١ ]} وابنه جون كيسي ("كيسي")، ^{[ ٨ ]} وبقي من بعده ابنته سوزانا وأحفاده.

صهره هو الممثل آدم باسكال .

• قصة واشنطن بقلم جاي دايس، دويل، سلون وبيرس، نيويورك، 1950.
• كتاب "الرقائق الزرقاء" للمؤلف جاي دايس، دار نشر سيمون وشوستر، نيويورك، 1957.
• كتاب "الكافر العظيم" لجوزيف جاي دايس، دار راندوم هاوس، نيويورك، 1963.
• كنز هيركولانيوم المدفون في إيطاليا بقلم جوزيف جاي دايس، شركة توماس واي كرويل، نيويورك 1966.
• قادة الحظ، نبذة عن ستة من قادة المرتزقة الإيطاليين بقلم جوزيف جاي دايس، دار نشر فيكتور جولانكز المحدودة، لندن، 1966.
• السنوات الرومانية لمارغريت فولر بقلم جوزيف جاي دايس، توماس واي، شركة كرويل، نيويورك، 1969.
• "مدينة هرقل، كنز مدفون" بقلم جوزيف جاي دايس، متحف جيه بول جيتي، 1995