Mullen, Thomas

The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a secondary school inside a Benedictine monastery. Mullen was encouraged to write by his teachers, many of them monks and priests. So he applied to a course in Creative Writing at Oberlin College in Ohio, but wasn’t accepted, and instead graduated with a double major in History and English at the college. In 2002 he married Jennifer Koenig Mullen. The couple lived in Boston, North Carolina, and Washington DC before moving to Atlanta, Georgia, 2008. They have two sons.