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Thom Hatch is an award-winning, popular American author and novelist who specializes in the history of the American West, the American Civil War, and the Plains Indian Wars. [ Thom grew up on Grand Island, New York, and graduated from North Olmsted High School in North Olmsted, Ohio. He honorably served in the United States Marine Corps, including deployment to Vietnam for 13 months. He then became a columnist for the Erie, Pennsylvania, Times-News and worked as a radio announcer during the late 1960s. In 1975, he moved to Colorado where he writes books, contributes to national publications, such as American Heritage, America's Civil War, True West, and Western Horseman, as well as teaches school. He has served as consultant and appeared on screen as an expert commentator for History Channel and PBS documentaries, and is regularly invited to speak at colleges, seminars, and civic and historic organizations. Hatch lives with his artist wife, Lynn, and daughter, Cimarron, in Colorado.
In 2005, Hatch's Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War received the Spur Award for literary excellence as the best biography of the year from the Western Writers of America.
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