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Biography

R. Eric Thomas (he/him) is a national bestselling author, playwright, and screenwriter. His books include, Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, which was featured as a Read with Jenna pick on NBC's Today, Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters, co-authored with Helena Andrews-Dyer, the YA novel Kings of B’more, a 2023 American Library Association Stonewall Honor book, and Congratulations, the Best Is Over!, an instant USA Today Bestseller. He also writes the daily, nationally syndicated advice column “Asking Eric.” For his playwriting, Eric has won the Barrymore Award for Best New Play, the Dramatist Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for the O’Neill Conference and the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. On screen, he wrote for the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson on AppleTV+ and Better Things on FX and is currently developing multiple film and television projects, including a half hour comedy based on his memoir. Off the page, Eric is also the long-running host of The Moth StorySlams in Philadelphia, and has been heard on Fresh Air, Live Wire Radio, and The Moth Radio Hour, among others.

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Total articles 8371

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  Asking Eric: Is it unreasonable to expect husband’s family to support me in my grief?

  By R. Eric Thomas

  Apr. 18, 2025

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  Her Fiancé’s Freeloading Grown Daughters

  By R. Eric Thomas

  Apr. 18, 2025

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  Asking Eric: Is it unreasonable to expect husband’s family to support me in my grief?

  By R. Eric Thomas

  Apr. 18, 2025

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