User:E.ThomasWood



Tom Wood here. A journalist by trade, I have at various moments in the past 30 years veered into entrepreneurship and the writing of history. Since December 2012, I have been a staff writer and editor for a global law firm. More about all that at the E. Thomas Wood wiki page.

I live in Nashville, Tennessee, where I was born in 1963. I have spent significant amounts of time in Sewanee, Tennessee (on myriad visits with friends), Leeds, England (junior year abroad from Vanderbilt, 1984-85), Krakow, Poland and environs (while working on, and later promoting, my biography of Jan Karski), Bucharest, Romania (a two-month stint lecturing on journalism at three universities under U.S. Information Agency sponsorship), Cambridge, England (where my family and I lived from September 2001 to Christmas 2003), and London (many times for many reasons).

Wikipedia article contributions
New (or re-written) articles:

Frank Maxwell Andrews

J. Frederick Essary

G. Alexander Heard

Other contributions

Original photo contributions
All photo contributions are donated to the public domain.

Random stuff
My name in Arabic, or so I was told by a young Kurdish refugee my traveling party met at a diner in Istanbul one day in 1995.

My name in Amharic, or so I was told by a friendly Ethiopian barmaid in the Nashville airport one night in 2004.

Wikipedia subjects who are or were, when living, friends of mine

David Briley

Bruce Feiler

Jan Karski

Richard Quest

John Seigenthaler Sr.

Wikipedia subjects I have interviewed or otherwise spent meaningful time with

Kenneth Adelman

Lamar Alexander

Kingsley Amis

Christopher Andrew

F. Lee Bailey

T. C. W. Blanning

Nicholas F. Brady

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Ignatz Bubis

Donald Davie

J. P. Donleavy

Linda Ellerbee

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Morgan Entrekin

Jerry Della Femina

Bill Frist

Kim Gandy

Martin Gilbert

Carlos Gutierrez

Seamus Heaney

John Hiatt

Robert Hicks

Robyn Hitchcock

Tony Horwitz

John Kay

Anthony Kiedis

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Christopher Knight

Aleksander Kwaśniewski

Milan Kučan

Andrew Nelson Lytle

Jay McInerney

Ted Nugent

Fess Parker

Drew Pearson

Oscar Robertson

Fred Russell

Haris Silajdžić

Joe Strummer

Peter Taylor

Fred Thompson

Lyle Waggoner

Robert Penn Warren

Elie Wiesel

Esther Williams

External link

 * E. Thomas Wood's personal home page
 * E. Thomas Wood's LinkedIn profile
 * E. Thomas Wood's videos at YouTube
 * E. Thomas Wood's IMDB page