1. Tom Zoellner was born on 1968 and is an American author and journalist.
12 Facts About Tom Zoellner
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Tom Zoellner is the author of popular non-fiction books which take multidimensional views of their subject.
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Tom Zoellner's work has been widely reviewed and has been featured on The Daily Show.
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Tom Zoellner went deeply into debt to do the research for this book, which told a personal story: the demise of his engagement to a woman in San Francisco and his consequent difficulties in letting go of the diamond ring which had been given back to him.
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Tom Zoellner has said it is impossible to understand the true historical effect of an object without seeing its international footprint, as well as the economics, politics, psychology, physics, theology and literature of that object.
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Shortly after Giffords was shot and badly wounded in a January 8,2011, assassination attempt, Tom Zoellner began writing an explanation of the sociological roots of the event.
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Tom Zoellner is the co-author of An Ordinary Man, the autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life hotel manager whose story was featured in the film Hotel Rwanda.
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In 2016, Tom Zoellner became the politics editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Tom Zoellner has previously received residencies from the Mesa Refuge, The Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Corporation at Yaddo.
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In October 2020, Tom Zoellner published The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America, a collection of essays based on Tom Zoellner's years of travel and reporting throughout the United States.
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Tom Zoellner's book is a fascinating investigation into American places and themes; metaphors for our country.
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In 2024, just before Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris chose her running mate, Tom Zoellner penned a measured panegyric on Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, lauding his virtues as a meticulous former astronaut and pragmatically centrist politician.