Rice, Thomas J.

Thomas J. Rice was born in rural Ireland. At thirteen he dropped out of school and immigrated to the United States, graduating from Cornell University. He received a PhD in sociology and spent twenty years in academe.

Rice's academic life included serving as professor of sociology at Georgetown University, a research associate position at Harvard, and a stint as an NEH Fellow at Berkeley. He is the coauthor of four books and over fifty articles and essays in refereed academic journals and editorial pages.

Turning to full-time writing in 2007, Rice's first novella "Hard Truths "was select...