Thomas Hunt

Tom Hunt publishes the MobHistory Substack and several websites, including the American Mafia history website and the Writers of Wrongs blog. He founded the journal, Informer, in 2008 and served as editor/publisher through 2026. He has moderated online forums on organized crime history and has written/cowritten books and articles on the subject.

He authored 2016's Wrongly Executed?. He and Michael A. Tona wrote the 2013 historical biography, DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime. He partnered with Martha Macheca Sheldon for Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia. He penned a U.S. Mafia history for the 2010 book, Mafia: The Necessary Reference to Organized Crime. He has contributed research and editing to other historical works.

Raised in the Bronx NY, he earned his bachelor's degree in history and journalism from Charter Oak State College in CT. Longtime residents of western CT, he and his wife have lived in Vermont since 2012. They have three grown children.