Personal life

Bass currently lives in New York and Paris with his wife and three children.

Academic career

Bass graduated with an honors A.B. from the University of Chicago and earned his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness from the University of California Santa Cruz. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, the Regents of the University of California, and the Ford Foundation. He has taught literature and history at Hamilton College and the University of California and is former director of the Hamilton in New York City Program on "Media in the Digital Age." Currently Bass is the Professor of English at University at Albany, State University of New York.

Media appearances

Bass has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, NPR, BBC, and other venues to promote his books. He is the author of numerous articles for Wired, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Discover, and other magazines.

Publications

The 1985 publication of his book The Eudaemonic Pie is believed to have motivated the passage of Nevada's law banning the use of devices to gain an advantage at casino games.

In his preface to Camping with the Prince, Bass states that he accompanied seven scientific expeditions into Africa from 1985 to 1987. This book focuses on African viewpoints to the African situation. It underlines the intricacy of Africa, more complex and more resilient than generally assumed by those looking at the continent from the outside. Among the African scientists presented to readers of this book are: Oyewale Tomori and Thomas Odhiambo. Thomas Bass also mentions in that preface that when he was a teenager he travelled along Africa's east coast, down the Congo and up West Africa.

Bibliography

• The Spy Who Loved Us (Public Affairs, 2009)
• The Predictors (Holt / Viking-Penguin, 1999)
• Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home (Soho, 1996, 1997)
• Reinventing the Future (Addison-Wesley, 1994, 1995)
• Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa (Houghton Mifflin, 1990; Penguin 1991; Moyer Bell, 1997)
• The Eudaemonic Pie (Houghton Mifflin, 1985; Vintage, 1986; Penguin 1991).