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with Thomas Page McBee,
author of Amateur and writer for The L Word.

Get all your questions answered about the process of moving from prose to screenwriting as well as the ins-and-outs of adapting a book for the screen with author and screenwriter Thomas Page McBee.

Thomas Page McBee is an author, journalist, and film/tv writer. His Lambda award-winning debut memoir, Man Alive (City Lights, 2014), was named a best book of the year by NPR Books, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, and Publisher's Weekly. His follow-up, Amateur (Scribner, 2018), was shortlisted for the UK’s  Baillie-Gifford nonfiction book prize and the Wellcome Book Prize. His television credits include Tales of the City (Netflix), and The L Word: Generation Q (Showtime). 

Thomas has taught at the City University of New York’s graduate school of journalism, and serves as an advisor for West Virginia University’s graduate school of journalism. A former senior editor at Quartz, Thomas’s essays and reportage have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, and The Atlantic. He currently lives with his wife on a mountain outside Los Angeles, where he is adapting Amateur for film, among other projects.