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    • Captivating her audience and leaving them speechless was Sue Thomas’ trademark. The inspiration behind the award-winning family TV series Sue Thomas: FBEye, she not only captured the hearts of millions of Americans but also hearts in 64 nations around the world where the TV show is syndicated.

    Born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, Sue faced overwhelming odds when, at the age of 18 months, she became profoundly deaf. Instead of institutionalizing Sue, her dedicated parents set out to provide the tools to enable her to live and survive in the world of sound. It was imperative to them that little Sue would learn to speak, even though she heard nothing. Years of speech therapy gave her the voice that would one day be heard worldwide. Deemed “a dummy” and put into the slow-learner class throughout her public school days, she was finally discovered by her typing teacher, who saw the raw potential concealed by Sue’s deafness. Through the intervention of this teacher, Sue went on to college, where she studied political science and international relations and received her BS degree before doing post-graduate work in counseling at Case Western Reserve and Columbia Bible College and Seminary. The highlight of her professional career was in Washington, DC, where the FBI recruited her for her unique lip-reading abilities.

    Sue’s story has been documented in a PBS special and featured on CNN Headline News. She was sought for her professional lip-reading expertise on 60 Minutes and Inside Edition. She made several guest appearances in the TV series Sue Thomas: FBEye and DOC with Billy Ray Cyrus.

    National media publications such as Family Circle and TV Guide, as well as most major newspapers, have featured her as the inspiration behind the TV series. She appeared on Moody Broadcasting, Focus on the Family, 700 Club, 100 Huntley Street, and the Gaither Homecoming concerts.

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    Ohio-born author and former FBI agent. She was mostly deaf by 18 months and trained with speech therapists to help her speaking voice. She became an expert lip-reader. Thomas started out at the FBI in 1979 as a fingerprint examiner. She then became a lip-reader for an undercover surveillance team and spent almost four years working for the FBI, until 1983. In 1990, she published her autobiography, Silent Night, which became a TV series, Sue Thomas, F.B. Eye. A golden retriever stood in during the run of the program for Thomas' own hearing dog at the time, a golden retriever named Levi. In 2001, Thomas was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In 2020, she received a lung cancer diagnosis but as of 2021, she claims that she is cancer-free and when not at home in a log cabin in Vermont, she travels with her service dog, a yellow lab named Sir "Rodney" the Great, as well as with a full-time associate.

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    Sue Thomas (author)

    English author

    Sue Thomas (born 1951) is an English author. Writing since the late 1980s, she has used both fiction and nonfiction to explore the impact of computers and the internet on everyday life. In recent years her work has focused on the connections between life, nature and technology.

    Biography

    Sue Thomas was born in Rearsby, a small village in Leicestershire, England, where her maternal grandparents owned a rose-growing business. Her parents were both Dutch: her mother, Dora had been brought to the UK as a small child, whilst her father, Wim, grew up in The Netherlands and emigrated to England to marry her mother in 1950. The de Vos family was very active in the Dutch Resistance during World War II, and Wim later wrote an account of his teenage years under the German occupation of the Netherlands.

    The three children. Susan, Stephen and Carolyn, were often culturally adrift, caught between two different nationalities – their Dutch heritage and English homeland. Their parents made little attempt to teach them the language but they heard Dutch spoken around them all the time. Sue once wrote that she grew up ‘feeling like a foreigner in my own family’.

    During the 1950s and the 1960s, their father had a series of jobs, selling office furniture, photocopiers, articulated lorries and, once, a revolutionary chicken feed system. This meant that the de Vos family frequently moved houses and schools – from Leicestershire to Newcastle, then Corby, Epsom, and finally Nottingham, where Wim at last found his metier as a life underwriter. After five years of disrupted secondary education, Sue left school at 16 and pursued her own equally varied career as accounts clerk, life model, fine art student, bookseller, and self-taught machine-knitter. She married Tyrone Thomas in 1974, had two daughters, Amber b.1976) and Erin (b.1

    “Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.” Voltaire

    WRITING

    I write about life, nature and technology. I’ve just completed The Fault in Reality, my third novel, after twenty years of writing journalism, academic works, and several nonfiction books. The story is set in 2016 between the week of the EU Referendum and the week Trump was elected. It takes place in two seaside towns: Bournemouth, Dorset, where I live, and Santa Monica, California, where I often wish I lived. It’s about webcams, the umwelt, bookshops, odd happenings, forests, beaches, Silicon Valley, the climate crisis and, inevitably, the future.

    My nonfiction books to date include Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age (2017), a beginner’s guide to technobiophilia with practical activities; Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace (2013), a study of nature metaphors in cyberculture; and Hello World: travels in virtuality (2004), a travelogue/memoir of life online. Also, ‘Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders’ (1995) and most recently I contributed to ’25: Celebrating 25 Years of Nottingham Trent University’s MA in Creative Writing‘, which I founded in 1994.

    My fiction includes the novels Correspondence (1992), short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and republished in 2019 by the SF Gateway, and ‘Water‘ (1994); plus an edited anthology ‘Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women’ (1994), and various short stories.

    I have been a regular contributor to Orion Magazine, and written for Aeon, Slate, Mashable, The Guardian, The Conversation and others. I’ve also published extensively in both print and online, and initiated numerous online writing projects including The Noon Quilt (1999), now an iconic image of the early days of the web.

    RESEARCH

    In 2013 I took voluntary severance from my job as Profess

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