James Alexander Thom
Novelist, Author
1933 –
Who is James Alexander Thom?
James Alexander Thom is an American author, best known for his works in the Western genre and colonial American history which are noted for their historical accuracy borne of his painstaking research. Thom graduated from Butler University in 1961 with a BA in Journalism after serving in the United States Marine Corps in the Korean Conflict. He taught a course in journalism at Indiana University, and was a contributor to the The Saturday Evening Post. In 1975, he married his third wife international platform speaker Dr. Cody Sweet. She became his literary agent and introduced him to senior editor Nancy Coffee at Avon Books and Random House. Coffee asked Sweet to manage the publicity tours and media campaigns for Thom's first three books, his best selling tomes. Eleven historical and contemporary novels followed. He has been married five times, currently to Claudia Cahill Kirkpatrick who writes under the name of Dark Rain Thom.
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- Born
- May 28, 1933
Gosport - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Butler University
- Lived in
- Bloomington
- Indiana
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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