Thomas Hine is a writer on history, culture and design. He is the author of five books, and he contributes frequently to magazines, including The Magazine Antiques, Philadelphia Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Martha Stewart Living, Architectural Record and others. He is a senior contributing writer to Home Miami and Home Fort Lauderdale.
He has taught courses at both the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. He has lectured at Yale, Syracuse, Drexel, and Michigan State Universities, museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Worcester Art Museum, and to professional and trade associations including the American Institute of Architects, the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, and the Beer Marketing Symposium. He wrote and narrated a series of short programs on architecture for WHYY public television in Philadelphia, and did two programs on design for New Jersey Network. In other television appearances, he discussed packaging on the Today show, and spoke on Entertainment Tonight about the meaning of stereophonic sound.
He was born in suburban Boston, grew up in Connecticut, and graduated from Yale. He has lived in Philadelphia since 1970.