Thomas E. Woods, Jr., was educated at Harvard and Columbia University (where he received his PhD), and was honored with the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award in Vienna in 2019.Woods is the New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, which in turn have been translated into over a dozen languages. His book The Church and the Market won the $50,000 first prize in the Templeton Enterprise Awards.Woods has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, FOX Business, C-SPAN, and other outlets, and produced his own program for EWTN. He was a creator of the self-taught, K-12 Ron Paul homeschool curriculum (RonPaulHomeschool.com).When not smashing deranged people, he enjoys chess (and insists the King's Gambit has not been refuted), unjustly obscure musicians like Marillion and Steven Wilson, and traveling the world.Woods lives in central Florida with his wife and five daughters.