E. Thomas Wood (born October 9, 1963) is an American

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and freelance writer. From 2005 until 2011, he worked as a reporter for

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, a local business and political news website in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and ...

, and related publications. In the 1990s, Wood regularly contributed to ''

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'' from Nashville and other locations (including Romania, where he lectured at universities in 1997), and to ''

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''. He was the founding editor of '' Bank Director'' magazine and served as editor and publisher of '' Nashville Life'' and '' Business Nashville'' magazines. He was a business reporter and interim business editor at ''

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'' in the early 1990s."Wood, E. Thomas". Contemporary Authors. Volume 220, p. 429. Since 2012, he has worked as a staff marketing writer for the global law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He has been a member since 1998 of the state-chartered Tennessee Holocaust Commission and since 2018 of the Metropolitan Nashville Historical Commission. A native of Nashville, Wood is a graduate of that city's

Montgomery Bell Academy Montgomery Bell Academy (MBA) is a preparatory day school for boys in grades 7 through 12 in Nashville, Tennessee. History MBA was established in 1867 in the aftermath of the American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861&nb ...

(having attended

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in seventh grade, 1976–77) and

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

. He holds a

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in European Studies from Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Works

*''Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust'', New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. . *''Nashville: An American Self-Portrait'' (co-editor), Nashville: Beaten Biscuit Press, 2001. . *''Profiles in Tenacity: A Century of Stories from Nashville School of Law'', Beckon Books, 2010. . *The Suspect: A Memoir'' (introduction; consultant on companion documentar
''Indelible: The Case Against Jeffrey Womack''
, Nashville: Eveready Press, 2012. . *''H.G. Hill Company: A Family Tradition in Three Centuries'', Nashville: Grandin Hood Publishers, 2020. .

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