Tom Shroder

Who is Tom Shroder?

Tom Shroder is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor who worked for the Washington Post for many years.

Shroder is co-author with John Konrad of Fire on the Horizon: the Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster, and sole author of Old Souls: Scientific Evidence From Children Who Remember Previous Lives, based on the work of Canadian psychologist Ian Stevenson.

Naked Came the Manatee was conceived and edited by Shroder.

Seeing the Light: Wilderness and Salvation: A Photographer’s Tale was written by him and John Barry.

In 2010 his Washington Post story “Fatal Distraction” won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

Shroder's The Hunt for Bin Laden, based on 15 years working for the Washington Post became the #1-selling Kindle Single on Amazon.com.

Shroder is also known for co-creating the Tropic Hunt, a mass-participation puzzle attended by thousands each year, which has become the Herald Hunt in Miami and the Post Hunt in Washington.

Shroder attended the University of Florida.