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　　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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