Name Thomas Greene | Role Novelist | |
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Education Hobart and William Smith Colleges Books I'll Never Be Long Gone, The Headmaster's Wife, Envious Moon, Mirror lake, After the Rain | ||
Vcfa president thomas christopher greene s speech to children s services
Thomas Christopher Greene (born 1968) is an American novelist and college president. His fifth novel, If I Forget You, will be published by St. Martin's Press in June 2016. His fiction has been translated into eleven languages and has found a worldwide following.
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- Vcfa president thomas christopher greene s speech to children s services
- Early life and education
- Career
- Works
- References
Early life and education
Greene was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Richard and Dolores Greene, the sixth of seven children. He was educated in Worcester public schools and then Suffield Academy in Suffield, Connecticut. He earned his BA in English from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, where he was the Milton Haight Turk Scholar. His MFA in Writing is from the former Vermont College. His brother, David, is the current president of Colby College in Waterville, Me.
Career
Since 1993, Tom has lived and worked in central Vermont. He is the founder and president of Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA), a graduate fine-arts college in Montpelier, Vermont, with degrees in visual art, writing, writing for children & young adults, graphic design, music composition, film, writing & publishing, and art & design education.
Prior to founding VCFA, Greene had a long career as a higher education administrator, working as a member of the leadership team at Norwich University, as an admissions and marketing professional, as the director of public affairs for two universities, as a professor of writing and literature, and as the director of a graduate program.[2] He has also worked as an oyster shucker, delivered pizza, on the line in a staple factory, and as a deputy press secretary for a presidential campaign.[3]