Thomas McNamee

Thomas McNamee
BornCharles Thomas McNamee III
(1947-07-31) July 31, 1947 (age 77)
Memphis, Tennessee, US
Alma materYale
GenreNatural History, Culinary History, Conservation
SpouseElizabeth Yates McNamee
Website
www.tmcnamee.com

Thomas McNamee (born Charles Thomas McNamee III; July 31, 1947) is an American writer and Guggenheim Fellow.[1] He has written four nonfiction books in the field of natural history and conservation, as well as a novel. He has also written biographies of notable culinary figures Craig Claiborne and Alice Waters.

McNamee's essays, poems, and natural history writing have been published in Audubon, The New Yorker, Life, Natural History, High Country News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Saveur, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, and a number of literary journals. He wrote the documentary film Alexander Calder,[2] which was broadcast on the PBS American Masters series in June 1998 and received both a George W. Peabody Award[3] and an Emmy.[4] Many of his book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review.[5] In 2016 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a book in progress, The Inner Life of Cats.[1] McNamee was interviewed by the podcast Criminal in 2020 for their episode, "Wolf 10."[6]

  1. ^ a b "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Thomas McNamee". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  2. ^ "The Paley Center for Media". The Paley Center for Media. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  3. ^ "Marvel's Jessica Jones Discussion with Melissa Rosenberg and Krysten Ritter". www.peabodyawards.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  4. ^ "Alexander Calder - Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO)". emro.lib.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  5. ^ Mcnamee, Thomas (2013-12-13). "Dana Goodyear's 'Anything That Moves'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  6. ^ "Wolf 10". Criminal. April 3, 2020.