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.
Full Biography.
Recent Articles.
Speaking tour.
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.
Full Biography.
Recent Articles.
Speaking tour.
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