Nathaniel Philbrick (born in 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his 2001 work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. He is probably the most prominent member of the Philbrick literary family.
Philbrick graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned his bachelor's degree at Brown University, and his master's deg...
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Nathaniel Philbrick (born in 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his 2001 work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. He is probably the most prominent member of the Philbrick literary family.
Philbrick graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned his bachelor's degree at Brown University, and his master's degree in American literature at Duke University. He moved to Nantucket in 1986, and is a leading authority on the history of the island.
He is the director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and is a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. He is a former intercollegiate All-American sailor and North American Sunfish champion. Philbrick has also written articles on sailing and American maritime history for Vanity Fair, the New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. In...
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