A Year in Ink

Journalist, book/music critic, and memoirist Thomas Larson is the author of Spirituality and the Writer: A Personal Inquiry (Swallow Press). He has also written The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease (Hudson Whitman), The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (Pegasus Press), and The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative (Swallow Press). He is a twenty-year staff writer for the San Diego Reader, a six-year book review editor for River Teeth, and a former music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican.

His Kindle books include What Exactly Happened: Four Essays on the Craft of Memoir, We Are Their Heaven: A Family Memoir, On the Poetry of James Wright, and Awash in Celebrity Authors.

As a lecturer, Larson speaks about his book on heart disease, holdsworkshops on "Writing the Memoir" and "The Spiritual Memoir," editsnonfiction manuscripts, and gives talks on heart disease, jazz, American composers, and nonfiction narrative.

His website isthomaslarson.com. When not on the road or spending time in Santa Fe,Larson lives with his partner Suzanna Neal in San Diego.