The 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery: Inspiring Thomas Goodman’s Award-Winning Novel

Dena Weigel’s 10 Question Interview with Thomas Goodman, the 2023 Laramie Division CIBA Grand Prize Winner for “The Last Man.”

An Interview with Thomas Goodman, the 2023 CIBA Grand Prize Winner for Americana & Western fiction for The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery.

by Dena Weigel for Chanticleer Book Reviews

“I first heard the story of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery in the 1990s when I lived in the small Texas county where it took place. All the accounts ended with the deaths of three of the four robbers, with little information about the life of the last surviving member of the gang.” – Thomas Goodman