Thomas Maier

For those of a similar name, see Thomas Mayer (disambiguation) and Thomas Mair (disambiguation).
Thomas Maier is an award-winning author, television producer and investigative reporter in New York.
Thomas Maier
Alma mater Fordham University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Occupation Author, journalist, television producer
Employer Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday
Known for Writing, investigative journalism
Notable work Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love; When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys

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.

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Pioneering 'Masters Of Sex' Brought Science To The Bedroom, 32:38, Fresh Air[1]

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.

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  1. "Pioneering 'Masters Of Sex' Brought Science To The Bedroom". Fresh Air. NPR. July 30, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
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  3. "Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award Winners". Retrieved 17 December 2013.
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  5. "The Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting are unique among journalism prizes worldwide in that they were created specifically to honor cross-border investigative reporting. Formerly the ICIJ Awards, the prizes were renamed in 2008 in honor of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain by militants in Pakistan in 2002.". Retrieved 17 December 2013.
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