Amazon.com: Neal Thompson: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

Neal Thompson

Image of Neal Thompson
  • From the Author
  •  | 
  • From Wikipedia

Neal specializes in narrative nonfiction, biography, and overlooked Americana. His fourth book, A CURIOUS MAN, chronicles the hard-to-believe life of the eccentric world-traveling cartoonist, media pioneer, millionaire-celebrity-playboy Robert 'Believe It or Not' Ripley, considered to be the godfather of reality TV. David Shields says A Curious Man "constructs an elegant argument: the world Ripley created is the world in which we now live", and Ben Fountain says "anyone who wants to understand America needs to read this book."

A former journalist, Neal has worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Baltimore Sun, and has written for Outside, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Men's Health. He and his books have been featured on NPR, ESPN, the History Channel, Fox, and TNT. Neal lives in Seattle with his wife and two skateboarding sons. Since 2011 he has worked as… Read more

Neal Thompson is an American non-fiction writer who resides in Asheville, North Carolina with his family. He has authored three full length books, Driving With The Devil, Light This Candle and Hurricane Season.

Read more – Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon


Books by Neal Thompson

Amazon Author Rankbeta 

(What's this?)

Customer Discussions
Neal Thompson forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
The new novel by Xp by Alison M. Bailey- will you check it out? 0 Feb 8, 2013
Like (1)
|

Stay Up To Date

Sorry, there was an error with your request.
Sorry, there was an error with your request.
You are subscribed to new release e-mails for Neal Thompson.
You are no longer subscribed to new release e-mails for Neal Thompson.
Sorry, there was an error with your request.
Please wait...

Latest Tweet

nealthompson

The good folks at BookTrib are giving away copies of A CURIOUS MAN: http://t.co/gDkh9sLSYR http://t.co/MLUoDtcxng


Most Recent Blog Posts

Posted: 5:45 PM PDT, May 6, 2013

Well this was fun… chatting with the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! folks for their cool WTF! blog. (No, it actually stands for Weird True Facts.)

Re-purposing the interview. Thanks for the Read more

Posted: 6:55 AM PDT, May 1, 2013
Meacham is the author, most recently, of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, a #1 New York Times bestseller that was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review,
Read more
Posted: 6:55 AM PDT, April 30, 2013

Just a week until publication day, and already A CURIOUS MAN is getting some early buzz. It was the lead book review in Harpers, taking up nearly a page and a half and reviewed by Jane Smiley - Read more



Author Video


Are You an Author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.

Learn how to submit changes at Author Central