E. Thomas Wood

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E. Thomas Wood (born October 9, 1963) is an American journalist, historian and freelance writer. From 2005 until 2011, he worked as a reporter for NashvillePost.com, a local business and political news website in Nashville, Tennessee, and related publications. [1]

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In the 1990s, Wood regularly contributed to The New York Times from Nashville and other locations (including Romania, where he lectured at universities in 1997), and to The Wall Street Journal . 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 The Tennessean in the early 1990s. [2] 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 (having attended Riverside Military Academy in seventh grade, 1976–77) and Vanderbilt University. He holds a Master's degree in European Studies from Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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  1. "Wood, E. Thomas". Contemporary Authors. Volume 220, p. 429.
  2. "Wood, E. Thomas". Contemporary Authors. Volume 220, p. 429.

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