Tom Vanderbilt
American journalist and author
Tom Vanderbilt is an American journalist and author who writes about design, technology, science and culture. He wrote Traffic, a New York Times bestseller about driving.
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American Born 1968 in Oak Forest, United States
About Tom Vanderbilt
Tom Vanderbilt was born in 1968 and works as a journalist, blogger and author. He has written for publications including Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Popular Science and The Financial Times. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) was published in 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf and became a New York Times bestseller. His other books include Survival City, a travelogue through the secret Cold War history of America, and You May Also Like, which is about taste.