Nathaniel Philbrick
Life at a Glance
Born
1956 in Boston, Mass.
Educated
Linden Elementary School and Taylor Allderdice High School in
Pittsburgh, Pa.; BA in English from Brown University in Providence,
RI, and an MA in America Literature from Duke University in Durham,
NC
Sailing
Philbrick was Brown's first Intercollegiate All-American sailor
in 1978; that year he won the Sunfish North Americans in
Barrington, RI; today he and his wife Melissa sail their Beetle Cat
Clio and their Tiffany Jane 34 Marie-J in the waters surrounding
Nantucket Island.
Married
Melissa Douthart Philbrick, who is an attorney on Nantucket. They
have two children: Jennie, 23, and Ethan 20.
Career
After grad school, Philbrick worked for four years at Sailing
World magazine; was a freelancer for a number of years, during
which time he wrote/edited several sailing books, including
Yaahting: A Parody (1984), for which he was the editor-in-chief;
during this time he was also the primary caregiver for his two
children. After moving to Nantucket in 1986, he became interested
in the history of the island and wrote Away Off Shore: Nantucket
Island and Its People. He was offered the opportunity to start the
Egan Maritime Foundation in 1995, and in 2000 he published In the
Heart of the Sea, followed by Sea of Glory, in 2003, and Mayflower,
due in May 2006.
Awards and Honors
In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award for
nonfiction; Revenge of the Whale won a Boston Globe-Horn Book
Award; Sea of Glory won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Naval History Prize and the Albion-Monroe Award from the National
Maritime Historical Society. Philbrick has also received the Byrne
Waterman Award from the Kendall Whaling Museum, the Samuel Eliot
Morison Award for distinguished service from the USS Constitution
Museum, the Nathaniel Bowditch Award from the American Merchant
Marine Museum, and the William Bradford Award from the Pilgrim
Society.
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