Tom E was born on his father's 25th birthday, Valentine's Day, 1956. Under his legal name, Thomas P. Ehrenzeller, Tom wrote, at age 18 in 1974, his first draft novel, At The Edge, in which the term, "world democracy" may have appeared for the first time ever. Tom's first published book, Solar Man, in which he advocated building world democracy as we grow out into space together, came out in 1985. His next book, Infinity, appeared in 2001, building upon the same idea, asserting that an infinite perspective is the key to human progress. In 2020, under the pen name "Tom E" he produced the first of his Grampa Solarman stories as 27th Century fables written for fun, but also with the same general ideals in mind.