Evan Thomas

This article is about the American journalist and author. For other meanings of "Evan Thomas", see Evan Thomas (disambiguation).

Evan Thomas
at the 2013 National Bookfest
Born	Evan Welling Thomas III (1951-04-25) April 25, 1951 Huntington, New York
Nationality	American
Education	Phillips Academy
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Virginia School of Law
Genre	non-fiction; history

Evan Welling Thomas III (born April 25, 1951) is an American journalist and author. He is the author of nine books, including two New York Times bestsellers.

Life and career

Thomas was born in Huntington, New York, and was raised in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. A graduate of Phillips Academy, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia School of Law, from 1991 he was a reporter, writer, and editor at Newsweek for 24 years. Prior to that, he was at Time. Thomas began his reporting career at The Bergen Record in New Jersey. He 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. They live in Washington, D.C.

Works

• The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas, Simon & Schuster, 1986; Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 978-0-684-83771-0
• The Man to See: The Life of Edward Bennett Williams. Simon & Schuster, 1992. ISBN 978-0-671-79211-4
• The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA. Simon & Schuster, 1996. ISBN 978-0-684-82538-0
• Back from the Dead: How Clinton Survived the Republican Revolution. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-87113-689-3
• Robert Kennedy: His Life. Simon & Schuster, 2000. ISBN 978-0-684-83480-1
• John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy. Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7432-5804-3
• Sea of Thunder: Four Naval Commanders and the Last Sea War. Simon & Schuster, 2007. ISBN 9780743252225
• A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama. PublicAffairs, 2009. ISBN 9781586486075
• The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898, Little, Brown and Company, 2010, ISBN 978-0-316-00409-1
• Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World. Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
• Being Nixon: A Man Divided. New York: Random House, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8129-9536-7

See also

• Norman Thomas (grandfather)

External links

• Official website
• Appearances on C-SPAN