R. Eric Thomas

Bio

R. Eric Thomas is a national 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 pick on NBC’s Today, Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters, co-authored with Helena Andrews-Dyer, and the novel Kings of B’more. He has written on the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson on AppleTV+ and Better Things on FX. Off the page, Thomas is 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.