Nickels, Thom: - Thom Nickels is a Philadelphia journalist and the author of twelve books, including Literary Philadelphia: A History of Prose & Poetry in the City of Brotherly Love. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1990 and awarded the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism in 2005. He is a weekly columnist for Philadelphia magazine, the theater critic for ICON magazine and a regular Huff Post contributor. He has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Metro Philadelphia, Travel Weekly, the New Oxford Review and the Broad Street Review. His essay on Agnes Repplier was the featured essay in the winter issue of the American Catholic Studies Journal (Villanova University), 2015.