Thomas Page McBee

Thomas Page McBee’s Lambda Award-winning debut memoir, Man Alive, was named a best book of the year by NPR Books, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers 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. His essays and reportage appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and many other outlets, and his work has been supported by residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. He is also a television writer/producer, and his recent work architecting the transition story for Elliot Page's character on The Umbrella Academy was nominated for a GLAAD award. He lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and dogs.