Nationality American Genre non-fiction; history | Name Evan Thomas Role Journalist | |
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Parents Evan Welling Thomas II, Anna Davis Education Books Being Nixon: A Man Divi, Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhow, The War Lovers: Roosevel, Robert Kennedy: His Life, The Wise Men Similar People Walter Isaacson, John Paul Jones, Eleanor Clift, Richard Nixon, Robert F Kennedy | ||
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Evan Welling Thomas III (born April 25, 1951) is an American journalist, historian, and author. He is the author of nine books, including two New York Times bestsellers.
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- Nixon legacy series evan thomas
- Evan thomas 2010 national book festival
- Life and career
- Family
- Works
- References
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Life and career
Thomas was born in Huntington, New York, and raised in nearby affluent Cold Spring Harbor. A graduate of Phillips Academy, Harvard University (B.A.), and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.), from 1991 he was a reporter, writer, and editor at Newsweek for 24 years. Prior to that, he was at Time Magazine. Thomas began his reporting career at The Bergen Record in northeastern New Jersey. He has won numerous journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award in 1998.
Thomas was, for 20 years, a regular panelist on the weekly public affairs TV show Inside Washington until the show ceased production in December 2013.
He taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton between 2003 and 2014. For seven years, from 2007 to 2014, he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence at Princeton.
Family
He is the son of Anna Davis (née Robins) and Evan Welling Thomas II, an editor who worked for HarperCollins and W. W. Norton & Company. His grandfather, Norman Thomas, was a six-time Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
He is married, and he and his wife, an attorney, are the parents of two daughters, including writer Louisa Thomas. They live in Washington, D.C.