Thomas Wolfson was raised in New York City during the '50s and '60s, spending his childhood summers at family property in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. In 1990 he moved permanently to Wellfleet with his wife and daughter, where he has been involved in acting and writing.
His novel "The Blackfish Inheritance" is a fictionalized autobiography illuminating the struggle of a son to cast off the shadow of his charismatic father and make his own way in life.