Author Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman is the author or editor of over twenty books, including New England at 400, The Quotable New Englander, A History of Connecticut Food, Literary Connecticut, A History of Connecticut Wine, Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City, Hamden: Tales from the Sleeping Giant, Insiders' Guide to Connecticut, The Foundation of Summer, Connecticut Town Greens, and Afoot in Connecticut: Journeys in Natural History, nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Lehman’s biography of Charles Stratton, Becoming Tom Thumb, won the Henry Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society of America, and was chosen as one of the American Library Association's outstanding university press books of the year. His revolutionary history Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London was a finalist in two categories of the Next Gen Indie Book Awards, and was used in a question on Jeopardy. And his novella, Shadows of Paris, was the Novella of the Year from the Next Gen Indie Book Awards, a Silver Medal for Romance from the Foreword Review Indie Book Awards, and a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award.

In addition to teaching at the University of Bridgeport, Eric is the editor of the school literary magazine, Groundswell, and of the faculty essay series, The Commons. He is a regular contributer to The Wayfarer, Edible Nutmeg and Estuary, for which he has won several awards from the Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been consulted on diverse subjects and quoted by The Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, the BBC, the History Channel, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and The Wall Street Journal.

Eric is lucky to be married to the talented poet, professor, and author, Amy Nawrocki. Learn more about her work here.

 Like all great New England writers, Eric Lehman knows that existence is saturated with meaning, and that our lives can be read as a sublime narrative…

- Ed Simon, author of America and Other Fictions and Relic

Eric D. Lehman uses his glorious, restless spirit to show us unbridled Connecticut.

- Tom Shachtman, author The Most Beautiful Villages of New England

Watch Eric’s Afoot in Connecticut videos here.

Check out Eric at Connecticut Center for the Book.

Watch Eric's appearances (5) in the documentary, The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar, which he filmed with Wingspan Productions and appeared on the BBC4 before being picked up by Real Stories. It is now available on Amazon Prime and on several channels on youtube.