Thom BarrettThom Barrett was born in the Bronx in 1937 when it was still fashionable. His grandfather achieved great wealth in the automobile business but lost it all by the end of World War II. Thom was an advertising executive in New York City, Atlanta, and Tapa and retired in 1995 from the same company he worked for since 1967. At seventy-six, he is not the oldest first-time author in the family. His paternal aunt, Ursulla Barrett Johnson, published for the first time at the age of eighty-two. Thom attended Mount Saint Michael High School in the Bronx and Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Read More Read Less