Tom Rachman is an English-Canadian author. His debut novel, The Imperfectionists (2010), revolves around a group of journalists working in Rome during the decline of traditional news media. This book became a global bestseller, was published in 25 languages, and had its film rights optioned by Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B.

Rachman was born in London, England, and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. He studied cinema at the University of Toronto and obtained a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also pursued studies in behavioral science at the London School of Economics.

His first journalism job was as an international news editor at Associated Press headquarters in New York. He later became a foreign correspondent at their Rome bureau. Moving to Paris to focus on fiction writing, he worked at the global edition of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Post the publication of The Imperfectionists in 2010, he left full-time journalism to focus on novel writing, contributing non-fiction pieces to publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

His novel, The Italian Teacher, centers on the troubled son of a renowned American painter and was nominated for the Costa Award for best novel. His short story collection, Basket of Deplorables, set during the Trump presidency, was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Rachman also collaborated with Eliot Higgins on ghostwriting the nonfiction work, We Are Bellingcat, known for exposing Russian-state criminality.

Currently residing in London, Rachman is a contributing columnist for the Canadian newspaper, The Globe & Mail. His writings have been featured twice in the Best Canadian Essays anthologies and were nominated for a 2024 National Newspaper Award.

He comes from a family of notable achievers: his father was the psychologist Stanley Rachman, his brother Gideon Rachman is a columnist for the Financial Times, and his sister Carla is an art historian. Sadly, his sister Emily passed away from breast cancer in 2012.