Colin Woodard, an author and
award-winning
journalist, writes for
Washington Monthly
, The Christian
Science Monitor
, Down East,  and The
Chronicle of Higher Education.
He is
currently State and National Affairs
Writer for the
Portland Press Herald /
Maine Sunday Telegram.
A native of
Maine, he has reported from more than
fifty foreign countries and six continents,
and lived for more than four years in
Eastern Europe.

He is the author of the New England
bestseller
The Lobster Coast: Rebels,
Rusticators, and the Struggle for a
Forgotten Frontier (Viking Press, 2004),
a cultural and environmental history of
coastal Maine;
Ocean's End: Travels
Through Endangered Seas (Basic Books,
2000), a narrative non-fiction account of
the deterioration of the world's oceans;
and
The Republic of Pirates: Being The
True And Surprising Story Of The
Caribbean Pirates And The Man Who
Brought Them Down , which is available
in Spanish, and Danish translation.

His fourth book,
American Nations: A
History of the Eleven Rival Regional
Cultures of North America, was released
by Viking Press in the Fall of 2011, and
has been named one of the Best Books of
2011 by the editors of
The New Republic
and
The Globalist.

He lives in Portland, Maine.

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Colin discusses Republic of
Pirates on NPR's Weekend
Edition

Colin on lobster industry  on
public radio's Marketplace

Colin on the flaws in
Maine's caucus system on
Maine Public Radio
Blog
Winner of the Portland Phoenix's 2012 and
2009 Best of Portland Readers' Polls
Best
Portland Author

Colin on Border Patrol's
"internal checkpoints" on
CBC's As It Happens
American Nations
Read the Bloomberg
excerpts from
American Nations

Read Colin's interview with
Rolling Stone.com
See Colin's interview on
PBS News Hour