Tom Rachman Explained

Tom Rachman
Education:University of Toronto (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
Notable Works:The Imperfectionists

Tom Rachman (born September 1974)[1] is an English-Canadian author. His debut novel was The Imperfectionists (2010), about a group of journalists working in Rome during the collapse of the traditional news media. The book became a global bestseller, published in 25 languages,[2] and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, optioned the film rights.[3]

Early life and education

Rachman was born in London, England, and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. He studied cinema at the University of Toronto and obtained a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Later, in his 40s, upon realizing that he didn't want to continue writing fiction, Rachman enrolled in a master's program in behavioral science at the London School of Economics.[4]

Career

Rachman's first job in journalism was as an editor of international news at Associated Press headquarters in New York. Later, he was sent to the Rome bureau as a foreign correspondent. He moved to Paris to write fiction, and worked there at the global edition of The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune.[5] After publishing The Imperfectionists in 2010, he quit full-time journalism to write further novels while contributing non-fiction articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and The Atlantic, among other publications.[6]

His novel The Italian Teacher, about the troubled son of a famous American painter, was nominated for the Costa Award for best novel.[7] His collection of short stories, Basket of Deplorables, set during the Trump presidency, was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.[8] Rachman ghost-wrote the nonfiction book, We Are Bellingcat, with Eliot Higgins, founder of the online-investigative collective known for exposing Russian-state criminality, such as the Skripal poisoning.[9]

Rachman currently lives in London, and is a contributing columnist to the Canadian newspaper The Globe & Mail. His writing has twice been included in the Best Canadian Essays anthologies,[10] [11] and was nominated for a 2024 National Newspaper Award.[12]

Personal life

His father was the psychologist Stanley Rachman, his brother is the Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman, and his sister Carla is an art historian; their sister Emily died of breast cancer in 2012.[13]

Works

Fiction

Non-fiction

Notes

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Imperfectionists - a novel by Tom Rachman - About Tom . 2013-07-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130527095117/http://tomrachman.com/about_tom.php . 2013-05-27 .
  2. Web site: Bethune . Brian . Tom Rachman's latest novel asks: can a great artist be a good father? . 2024-04-29 . Macleans.ca . en.
  3. Web site: Brad Pitt buys rights to 'The Imperfectionists' . 2024-04-29 . EW.com . en.
  4. News: Rachman . Tom . October 7, 2024 . I Was a Best-Selling Novelist. Then I Went Back to School. . The New York Times.
  5. Web site: 2011-03-14 . The Debut . 2024-04-29 . University of Toronto Magazine . en-US.
  6. Web site: Articles . 2024-04-29 . Tom Rachman . en.
  7. News: Clark . Clare . 2018-12-25 . The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman review – great art and monstrous selfishness . 2024-04-29 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  8. Web site: 2022-06-20 . Previous shortlists and winners . 2024-04-29 . The Edge Hill Short Story Prize . en-GB.
  9. News: Harding . Luke . 2021-02-01 . We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins review – the reinvention of reporting for the internet age . 2024-04-29 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  10. Web site: Best Canadian Essays 2023 . 2024-04-29 . Biblioasis . en-US.
  11. Web site: Best Canadian Essays 2025 . 2024-04-29 . Biblioasis . en-US.
  12. News: 2024-04-26 . All The Globe and Mail's winners and finalists for the 2023 National Newspaper Awards . 2024-04-29 . The Globe and Mail . en-CA.
  13. News: How I mourned my sister through the books she left behind. 27 May 2016. Washington Post. 30 May 2016.
  14. Web site: Scotiabank Giller Prize 2010 Announces Its Longlist. www.scotiabank.com. 2018-11-23.
  15. Web site: Winners of CAA Literary Awards Revealed - The BPC. www.thebpc.ca. en-US. 2018-11-23.
  16. News: Shortlist 2018. 2018-06-18. Short Story. 2018-11-23. en-GB.
  17. News: Shortlist for 2018 Costa Book Awards announced. Evening Standard. 2018-11-23. en-GB.
  18. News: 2023-07-23 . Review For an aging novelist, the blurring lines of fact and fiction . 2024-03-07 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.

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