I graduated from Tufts University in 1967, joined the US Peace Corps, and taught English in Turkey for a year. The following year I wrote Frommer’s "Turkey on $5 a Day" as a Peace Corps project. After graduate school and historical research in Istanbul's Ottoman archives, I discovered the job market for Ottoman scholars was dismal, so I continued travel writing and photography instead. My guidebooks for Insight, Berlitz, Frommer's and Lonely Planet covered Belize, Canada, Egypt, England, France, Guatemala, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, New England, Tunisia and Turkey, have sold several million copies, with translations into a dozen languages.

After writing and publishing a humorous travel memoir, "Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea - on the road with a travel writer," in 2005, I began writing, photographing, designing and publishing travel websites (Turkey, France, New England and more), which have received as many as seven million annual visitors from 230+ countries.

I've written, designed and published four novels: "Paris Girls Secret Society" (2017), "Istanbul Love Bus" (2018), "Serene - a novel of the Belle Époque" (2022), and "Alexandros - the island" (2024). A fifth is in the works.

I've been a Contributing Editor to "Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel" magazine, published articles and photographs in leading magazines and newspapers and I've appeared on television and radio, including ABC's "Good Morning America," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," the Travel Channel, Public Radio International's "The Connection," and The Voice of Turkey.

I've given lectures at the American Turkish Council, Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt National Musem of Design, and the University of Chicago. More at: tombrosnahan.com.