Thomas Brown Sanchez is an American writer descendant of Spanish immigrant gamblers and Portuguese cattlemen dating back five generations to the Californias Gold Rush.
He spent his early childhood at his Portuguese grandmother’s boarding house ín a small town on the shore of San Francisco Bay.
He left the U.S. with his young wife and infant daughter with no tickets home, to an isolated Andalusian village in Spain to write his novel, Rabbit Boss, a 100-year saga of a California Indian Tribe begun when he worked on cattle ranches in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Throughout the 1990s Sanchez lived in Paris, Provence, and Mallorca, the settings for his fourth novel, Day of the Bees, a saga encompassing a fifty-year history from the onset of World War II to modern times.
Parallel to his writings, Sanchez has written and developed numerous screen plays based on his novels with producers such as Francis Ford Coppola and Ken Burns.