Tom Cooper

Tom Cooper also writes under his full name Thomas W. Cooper so Amazon has some of his books listed under each name. He is the author of 11 books and over 200 published articles about media, theater, ethics, music, and communication. He was co-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, worked in the White House, was an assistant to Marshall McLuhan, and was guest scholar at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, East/West Center, Moscow State University, and elsewhere while teaching at Emerson College, the University of Hawaii, Harvard, Temple, and the University of Maryland. His musical, HIGHER! HIGHER! will premiere in Honolulu in Oct. 2025 and Connected Editions will be publishing his next book, WISDOM WEAVERS, in May, 2025. Cooper studied at Harvard (magna cum laude), the University of Toronto (M.A. and PhD), the Orson Welles Film School, and the Royal Conservatory. He lives with his wife near Honolulu where he loves to swim, hike, write books, enjoy spirituality, and develop theater.