Thomas Larson

Thomas Larson---critic, memoirist, and journalist---is the author of The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (Pegasus Books) and The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative (Swallow Press). He is a long-time staff writer for the San Diego Reader and teaches in the MFA low-residency program in creative nonfiction at Ashland University. He holds workshops on memoir writing as well as delivers multimedia talks on Samuel Barber, the musicians of the Titanic, the craft of nonfiction writing, and the "social author" in the digital age throughout the United States.