Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick, whose book In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Viking Penguin, 2000) won the 2000 National Book Foundation Award for nonfiction, is a resident of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. A leading authority on the history of Nantucket, Mr. Philbrick serves as the director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Society. Mr. Philbrick's other books include Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890 (1994) and Abram's Eyes: The Native American Legacy of Nantucket Island (1998).
