Ptolemy Tompkins

Ptolemy Tompkins is an American writer. Author of Paradise Fever and a senior editor, at Guideposts Magazine. He resides with his wife in New York City.

Tompkins is the only son of occult author Peter Tompkins. As a boy, Ptolemy was granted the kind of freedoms his schoolmates could only dream of, as he came of age in a home overrun by a bizarre assortment of orgiasts, Yeti-hunters, alchemists, spaceship communicants, and charlatans of every stripe. In 1974, Ptolemy's father moved to Bimini with Ptolemy in tow to search for the lost continent of Atlantis. Ptolemy wrote about his ordeals in his memoir Paradise Fever.Other books include A Dog Lover's Collection, , The Monkey in Art, and This Tree Grows Out of Hell. Tompkins is currently writing The Divine Life of Pets for a major publishing house.

Ptolemy Tompkins is not the only child of Peter Tompkins. Ptolemy has an older sister Robin Tompkins Ray of Nassau, Bahamas and brother Timothy Christopher (TC) Tompkins February 24, 1947 - May 21, 2008 Atlanta, GA.( Atlanta Journal Constitution May 25, 2008). Their mother is Jeree Talbot Smith Tompkins of New York City.