Thom Nickels is a Philadelphia-based journalist/author and the 2005 recipient of the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism. He has written for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Magazine and currently writes for City Journal, New York, Frontpage Magazine, Broad and Liberty, and the Philadelphia Irish Edition. He is the author of fifteen books, including Literary Philadelphia, Philadelphia Architecture, Out in History, Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This, Philadelphia Mansions, and From Mother Divine to the Corner Swami: Religious Cults in Philadelphia. His co-authored play, Rendezvous in Bangkok: Who Killed Thomas Merton premiered in 2021 in Philadelphia.
