Louisa Thomas (born 1981) is an American writer and sports journalist. Thomas is the daughter of journalist and Newsweek editor Evan Thomas and Washington, D.C. attorney Oscie Thomas. [1] . She graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude with a degree in English in 2004. [2]

Mar 9, 2025 · Louisa Thomas, a staff writer at The New Yorker, contributes the weekly column The Sporting Scene. Her books include “ Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams.” The U.S.C. basketball...

Louisa Thomas is a staff writer for the New Yorker. She is the author of Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams , a biography of the former First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), and Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family — A Test of Will and Faith in World War I , about her great-grandfather, Norman Thomas, and his ...

Oct 19, 2020 · Louisa Thomas is not that kind of reporter. It is unlikely that she will ever dunk on Wojnarowski or Charania in a photoshopped image. She approaches sports more as a critic than a bearer of news.

Louisa Thomas is the author of Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, a biography of the former First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), and Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family — A Test of Will and Faith in World War I, about her great-grandfather, Norman Thomas, and his three brothers.

Mar 17, 2025 · Journalist and historian Louisa Thomas, the author of “Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams,” will speak about Louisa’s unusual life and the way it resonates still, two hundred and fifty years later.

Apr 24, 2015 · After jobs at Slate and The New Yorker, Thomas published a nonfiction World War I novel titled “Conscience” about her great-grandfather Norman Thomas, a political pacifist and six-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party.

May 9, 2016 · Author Louisa Thomas’s new book, Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, shines a spotlight on Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams and our only foreign-born First Lady. Based on letters, diaries, and a plethora of secondary sources, Thomas’s work paints a vivid portrait of one of the most overlooked figures in the early republic.

Apr 4, 2016 · Louisa Thomas, a journalist and a former editor at the now defunct Grantland, makes full use of this bounty. “Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams” offers a biography filled with...

Penelope Lively looks back on a life of reading and writing. A journalist explores his father’s sudden, hazily explained death. Alexander Stille looks at the discordant strains of his parents’...