Tom Coffman Author

Tom Coffman is a writer and film-maker, grounded in the political history of Hawai'i. His Catch a Wave: A Case Study of Hawaii's New Politics, about John A. Burns and the internal battles of the Hawai'i Democratic Party, was an instant best-seller. His Nation Within: The Story of America's Annexation of the Nation of Hawai'i and The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawai'i both won the Hawai'i Book Publishers Association's award for nonfiction writing, and for his cumulative work he received the Hawai'i Award for Literature.