Thomas Sanchez
Thomas Sanchez is a descendant of cattlemen dating back four generations in California to the nineteenth-century Gold Rush. He was born days after his father was killed at the age of twenty-one in the Battle of Tarawa during World War II. Sanchez’s novels have received numerous honors, and he has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and is a Chevalier of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Sanchez is also the director of a documentary film, Into the Light, chronicling the life of Jack Garfein, legendary film director and Actors Studio icon, and survivor of eleven concentration camps. Sanchez divides his time between San Francisco, Key West, and Paris.
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American Tropic
- By: Thomas Sanchez
- Narrator: Michael Kramer
- Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 22, 2013
- Language: English
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Thomas Sanchez’s international bestseller, Mile Zero, set in Key West, was hailed by the Washington Post as a ‘holy terror of a book of immense power and passion,’ lauded by Vanity Fair as ‘mythmaking and magisterial,’... Read more
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