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R. Eric Thomas (he/him) is a national bestselling author, playwright, and screenwriter. His books include, Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, which was featured as a Read with Jenna pick on NBC's Today, Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters, co-authored with Helena Andrews-Dyer, the YA novel Kings of B’more, a 2023 American Library Association Stonewall Honor book, and the essay collection Congratulations, the Best Is Over!

For his playwriting, Eric has won the Barrymore Award for Best New Play, the Dramatist Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. On screen, he wrote for the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson on AppleTV+ and Better Things ...more

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	Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,531 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Congratulations, the Best is Over! 4.03 avg rating — 7,736 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kings of B'more 3.88 avg rating — 838 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Animals by Rachel Hamburg (Editor), Ken Liu (Goodreads Author), R. Eric Thomas (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters by Helena Andrews-Dyer (Goodreads Author), R. Eric Thomas (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Life: 10 Writers on Love, Fear, and Hope in the Age of Disasters by Garrett M. Graff (Goodreads Author), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author), Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author) 3.21 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Harrison 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When the fact of your being is used as a weapon against you, the process of relearning who you are and what your value is, is a long one.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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“You say you want a happy ending, but neither of those words is really what you're searching for. For instance, you will not live to see a just world. But you will live to see acts of justice.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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“If our religions aren't about the business of achieving justice in our time, in this world, for everyone, what are they doing?”
― R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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