Tom Zoellner

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 teaches at Chapman University and is an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award

Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan

Books:

The Road was Full of Thorns

Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War
History / Biography
The New Press
September 2025
ISBN 9798893850086
329 pages