Thomas Dixon Jr.: Thomas Dixon Jr.. Writer: The Birth of a Nation. American novelist, writer and minister Thomas Dixon was born in Shelby, NC. His father was a Baptist minister and, by inheritance, a slave-owner. As a young boy Dixon helped out on the farms the family owned; although he would later say he detested farm labor, he admitted that it helped him to better understand the life of the working class Southerner...
Known For: The Birth of a Nation (Writer(as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.)), The Mark of the Beast (Writer(as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.)), Gods of the Machine (Writer), The Fall of a Nation (Writer(as Thomas Dixon))