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, Mass. A leading authority on the history of Nantucket, he serves as the director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Society. His most recent book, Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery – The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Penguin, 2003), was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
