Thomas Farley

Thomas Farley

Thomas P. Farley (a.k.a. "Mister Manners") is a manners expert, coach, radio and television personality and journalist.

Farley is the editor of the anthology Modern Manners: The Thinking Person's Guide to Social Graces, a guide to mannerly living that includes essays by Peggy Noonan, Frank McCourt and Jamie Lee Curtis. During his time as an editor in the features department of Town & Country (2000-2008), he was the editor of T&C's "On the Town" and "Social Graces" columns. It was during this time that he first became known to national and New York television audiences as an expert on issues of contemporary etiquette, appearing on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and in periodicals such as The New York Times and New York magazine. He is the creator of a web site devoted to matters of contemporary etiquette, What Manners Most. Along with his fellow etiquette expert Diane Gottsman, of the Protocol School of Texas, in the Fall of 2012, Farley launched a national campaign called Thanksgiving Unplugged, the goal of which is to get Americans to disconnect from their digital devices during Thanksgiving dinner and focus instead on family. In October 2012, Farley became a manners columnist for the New York Post, and in spring 2013, launches a column for "Manhattan" magazine.