Thomas Maier is an author, journalist, and television producer. His book
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love is the basis for the award-winning drama
Masters of Sex which premiered on
Showtime in 2013. Most recently, he is the author of
When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys, the first comprehensive history of the two dynastic families, published by Crown. His other books include
The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings, a multi-generational history of the Kennedy family and the impact of their Irish-Catholic background on their lives, and
Dr. Spock: An American Life, named a "Notable Book of the Year" in 1998 by
The New York Times and the subject of a
BBC and
A&E Biography documentary. His 1994 book,
Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power and Glory of America's Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It, won the Frank Luther Mott Award by the
National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication as Best Media Book of the Year. Maier joined
Newsday in 1984, after working at
Chicago Sun-Times. He's won several top honors, including the national
Society of Professional Journalists' top reporting prize twice, the
National Headliner Award, the
Worth Bingham Prize, and New York Deadline Club. In 2002, he won the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' top prize for a series about immigrant workplace deaths. At the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he won the John M. Patterson Prize for television documentary making and later received the John McCloy Journalism Fellowship to Europe. He also has a B.A. in political science from Fordham University in the Bronx. He lives on
Long Island, New York.