About Thomas Maier & Books, TV, Journalism Projects
Award-Winning Writer
Thomas Maier is an award-winning author, investigative journalist and television producer. His Emmy-winning Showtime drama MASTERS OF SEX and the Emmy-nominated 2024 Paramount docuseries MAFIA SPIES, were both based on his books and acclaimed by The New York Times. As an investigative reporter for NY's Newsday, he won several top national prizes and the 2022 Columbia University Journalism School Award for career achievement.
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THE INVISIBLE SPY: Churchill's Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America's First Secret Agent of World War II
An Amazon Editors's Best Book Selection in History, acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs Magazine and a *Starred* Review by Booklist. Also featured at a 2025 FDR Presidential Library Forum.
Paramount's MAFIA SPIES-- Based on the book by Thomas Maier, who served as a producer and on-air commentator for this Emmy nominated six-part docuseries praised by The New York Times.
MASTERS OF SEX, Showtime's Primetime Emmy-Winning Drama Series, Based on Thomas Maier's Biography of Masters & Johnson.
Thomas Maier's 2009 book Masters of Sex was acclaimed by The New York Times and made into an Emmy-winning drama starring Lizzy Caplan, Michael Sheen, Alison Janney, Jeremy Strong, and Annaleigh Ashford. Maier was the author/writer and a producer for all four seasons of the series.
WHEN LIONS ROAR: The Churchills and The Kennedys
My biography of these two famous families was featured at a John F. Kennedy Presidential Library forum. WHEN LIONS ROAR was praised by Douglas Brinkley in The Washington Post and excerpted in Time.com.
MONTAUK TO MANHATTAN: An American Novel
This Hamptons murder mystery tells about a down-on-his-luck writer hoping to redeem his life when Hollywood turns a book of his into a big TV show. MONTAUK TO MANHATTAN satirizes Hollywood, America's media during the 2016 rise of Donald Trump to power, and an ancient land scandal against the Montauk tribe that is still going on today.
ALL THAT GLITTERS
ALL THAT GLITTERS is the 2019 updated version my award-winning NEWHOUSE book about Condé Nast and the Newhouse media empire. As Frank Rich said in New York magazine, my book shows how Newhouse's best friend Roy Cohn manipulated the Newhouse publications for the mob and opened the door for the Trump era by making The Donald into a national celebrity. The updated version tells of the in-house rivalry between editors Anna Wintour and Tina Brown, their ties to Trump and #MeToo Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, and how these two talented editors dealt with the blatant misogyny within Condé Nast.
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All Thomas Maier books are available on Amazon and other online bookstores.
The Invisible Spy, Montauk To Manhattan, All That Glitters, Mafia Spies, When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys, Masters of Sex, Dr. Spock: An American Life, The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings, Newhouse.