Tom Zoellner is the author of nine nonfiction books, including Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best nonfiction book of 2020, and The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War. He works as a professor at Chapman University and as an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Los Angeles.
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award
Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan
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