Joyce Dyer

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Joyce Dyer (born 20 July 1947) is a U.S. scholar and writer of memoirs whose Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town is both a loving portrait of her father and a view of the relationships among Firestone Tires, its employees, and the city of Akron, Ohio. An earlier memoir was In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey, and she has also edited a collection of essays about place by Appalachian women writers, Bloodroot. Dr. Dyer is professor of English and director of writing at Hiram College in Ohio.