Thomas Chatterton Williams

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a writer. The author of two memoirs, Losing My Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White, he is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a visiting humanities professor and senior fellow at Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center, and a visiting fellow at AEI. Williams’s work has been collected in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The London Review of Books, Le Monde, and others. His forthcoming book is Nothing Was the Same: The Pandemic Summer of George Floyd and the Shift in Western Consciousness. Williams is a member of the board of trustees at the American Academy in Berlin.