Tom Feran
Tom Feran has been a writer and editor for the Plain Dealer since 1982. He was named Best Columnist in Ohio in 2007 by the Society of Professional Journalists, and is former president of the Television Critics Association of North America. His work has appeared in publications including Ohio, Cleveland and DirecTV Magazine, and he has been a regular pseudonymous contributor to the tabloid Weekly World News. He is author with R.D. Heldenfels of Ghoulardi: Inside Cleveland TV's Wildest Ride and Cleveland TV Memories. He was co-author with John Gorman of Gorman's memoir The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of WMMS and Cleveland Rock Radio, and with Chuck Schodowski of the memoir Big Chuck! He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he was president and editor of the Lampoon, and of Cleveland St. Ignatius High School. He and his wife are the parents of two daughters and two sons.
Books by Tom Feran
Big Chuck!
My Favorite Stories from 47 Years on Cleveland TV
by Chuck Schodowski | Tom Feran
Tune in as Cleveland TV legend “Big Chuck” Schodowski tells hundreds of funny and surprising stories from a lifetime in television—in his familiar, good-natured, Cleveland-to-the-bone style. . . . [Read More]
The Buzzard
Inside the Glory Days of WMMS and Cleveland Rock Radio--A Memoir
by John Gorman | Tom Feran
Now in Paperback! This rock and roll radio memoir takes you behind the scenes at the nation's hottest station during FM's heyday, from 1973 to 1986. Sex and drugs, music and merchandising--it was a wi . . . [Read More]
Ghoulardi
Inside Cleveland TV's Wildest Ride
by Tom Feran | R. D. Heldenfels
This is the definitive fan's guide to the outrageous and bizarre Ghoulardi TV show and a history of the hoopla that surrounded its brief reign on Cleveland's airwaves. Who was Ghoulardi? If you grew u . . . [Read More]