Tom Shroder is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor, who worked for the Washington Post for many years. Shroder is co-author of Fire on the Horizon: the Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster (2011) and author of Old Souls: Scientific Evidence From Children Who Remember Previous Lives

Old Souls

Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence For Past Lives is a non-fiction book by journalist Tom Shroder. An editor at the Washington Post, Shroder traveled extensively with psychiatrist Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, who conducted past life and reincarnation research in Lebanon, India and...

(1999). Naked Came the Manatee

Naked Came the Manatee

Naked Came the Manatee is a mystery thriller parody novel published in 1996. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each written by a different Miami-area writer. It was originally published as a serial in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, one chapter per issue, and later published as a single novel...

(1996) was conceived and edited by Shroder.

Shroder is also known for co-creating the Tropic Hunt

Tropic Hunt

The Herald Hunt, formerly the Tropic Hunt, is an annual puzzlehunt in Miami, Florida. It was co-created by Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry, along with Tropic editors Gene Weingarten and Tom Shroder...

, a mass-participation puzzle attended by thousands each year, which has become the Herald Hunt in Miami and the Post Hunt

Post Hunt

The Post Hunt is an annual puzzlehunt in Washington, DC. It was co-created by Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry, along with Gene Weingarten and Tom Shroder. The Post Hunt debuted in 2008. The most recent hunt took place on June 5, 2011, with another planned for summer 2012...

in Washington.

Shroder was born in New York City in 1954, and attended the University of Florida.