R. Eric Thomas is a bestselling author, playwright, and screenwriter. His books include
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, which was featured as a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick on NBC's
Today, and
Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters, co-authored with Helena Andrews-Dyer. For four years, he wrote "Eric Reads the News," a wildly popular daily humor column covering pop culture and politics for
Elle online. Eric is the winner of the Barrymore Award for Best New Play and the Dramatist Guild Lanford Wilson Award, and was a finalist for the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. He has written for the Peabody Award-winning streaming series
Dickinson and
Better Things on FX. Off the page, Eric is also the long-running host of The Moth StorySlams in Philadelphia and Washington,
D.C., and has been heard multiple times on
The Moth Radio Hour, NPR's
All Things Considered, and
It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders. He lives in Maryland with his extraordinary husband, the Reverend David Norse Thomas.
