Evan Thomas (born April 1951) is an American journalist and author.
A graduate of Phillips Andover, Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, since 1991 he has been the Assistant Managing Editor at Newsweek. From 1986-1996, he was Newsweek's Washington bureau chief. He has won numerous journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award in 1998 for NEWSWEEK's coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
He is the grandson of the late Norman Thomas, a six-time Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. He is married to Osceola Freear and is the father of two daughters, Louisa Herron Thomas and Mary Osceola Thomas. They live in Washington D.C.
On April 9, 2007, Thomas was a guest on the Donald Imus show in the midst of a developing controversy arising from a statement by Imus regarding players on the Rutgers women's basketball team. "He should not have said what he said, obviously," Thomas told the New York Times. "I am going on the show, though. I think if I didn't, it would be posturing. I have been going on the show for quite some time and he occasionally goes over the line."