Contact

Talk to Thomas Murphy about his books and plays at the following email address:

tommurphy1951@gmail.com

Greetings, and welcome to my website! My name is Thomas Murphy. I am an American journalist and writer living in São Paulo, Brazil. I have been writing plays for more than 20 years, a total of six, three in English and three in Portuguese. Click on Menu items and then scroll down the page for directions to brief descriptions, sample lines and the first scene of each play. See Extras for interviews with noted playwrights. Also see Fiction to review Deadlock, my fast-paced American political thriller!

I was born and raised in New Jersey, graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1973 and came to Brazil to live and work in the late 1970’s. My wife Celia and I have been married for more than 40 years. We have two grown children, Michelle and Patrick. I have been covering Brazil as a foreign correspondent since the days of the 1970’s military dictatorship, working for mainly U.S. news organizations such as Associated Press, Knight-Ridder and Dow Jones. Early in the new century, I had the privilege of working at Brazil’s newspaper of record, O Estado de S. Paulo. My freelance articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, Contemporary Review, Americas and many other publications. I am co-author of two Brazilian travel guides under the Insight banner, and contributor to two collections of essays about the foreign press in Brazil and two collections of short fiction on Brazilian themes.