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Overview


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"The act of writing could amount to a kind of revenge. But empathy, instead, is McBee’s objective, the most important part of becoming real in one’s own eyes. ‘Being human,’ he concludes, ‘means being at the mercy of others.’ That’s a part of aspiration, too. We are born human; with hard work, we achieve humanity."  Henry Giardina, New York Times

"McBee takes us in his capable hands and shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive.”—Roxane Gay

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Thomas Page McBee’s Lambda award-winning debut memoir, Man Alive, was named a best book of the year by NPR Books, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, and Publisher's Weekly. His “refreshing [and] radical” (The Guardian) follow-up, Amateur, was shortlisted for the UK’s Baillie-Gifford nonfiction book prize and the Wellcome Book Prize, named a best book of the year by many publications, and translated into multiple languages. In the course of reporting the book, Thomas became the first transgender man to ever fight in Madison Square Garden.

A writer/producer, Thomas is the creator of several projects in development, including a television adaptation of Amateur. His most recent television writing credit was season 3 of The Umbrella Academy, where he architected and wrote the transition narrative for Elliot Page’s character, Viktor. That storyline was widely praised in the press, and the season was nominated for a GLAAD award. He was also a writer/producer on season 4 of Umbrella Academy, and he has worked as a writer on Showtime’s The L Word and Netflix’s Tales of the City. Additionally, he co-created and co-wrote the forthcoming Audible original, Bloodhound.

Thomas’s essays and reportage appear in the New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and many other outlets. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and dogs, and is currently at work on a new nonfiction project, Trans Time Travel, set to be published by Scribner in 2025.