Lenore thomas biography of michael

1967—

Writer, educator

Michael Thomas is a writer and educator whose first book, Man Gone Down, catapulted him into the ranks of the nation's most prominent novelists. Called by Donna Seaman in Booklist "a rhapsodic and piercing post-9/11 lament over aggression, greed, and racism, and a ravishing blues for the soul's unending loneliness," Man Gone Down was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2007 by The New York Times.

Michael Thomas was born on August 21, 1967, in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children born to David Milton Thomas, a sales executive and onetime philosophy major, and Thelma Louise Allen Thomas.

In a 2007 interview with David Mehegan in the Boston Globe, Thomas recalled his father's habit of reading to him from a large and varied library.

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"He read to me quite a bit, things I was far too young to understand," Thomas said. "That was our bond." Books would prove a refuge for Thomas amid difficulties in his parents' marriag What Happened to Christine Belford's Killer Thomas ... XUGY