Colin Woodard is an award-winning
author and journalist. He is currently
State and National Affairs Writer for
the Portland Press Herald / Maine
Sunday Telegram, where he was a 2016
Pulitzer Prize finalist and received a
2012 George Polk Award for his
investigative reporting. He is also a
contributing editor at Politico and writes
for Washington Monthly and The
Chronicle of Higher Education and
reviews books for the Washington Post.
A native of Maine, he has reported from
more than fifty foreign countries and
seven continents, and lived for more
than four years in Eastern Europe. In
2014 he was named one of the "Best
State Capitol Reporters in America" by
the Washington Post and Journalist of
the Year by the Maine Press
Association.
He is the author of American Nations:
A History of the Eleven Rival Regional
Cultures of North America (Viking,
2011) which was named one of the Best
Books of 2011 by the editors of The
New Republic and The Globalist and
won the 2012 Maine Literary Award for
Non-Fiction.
His other books include 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 New York
Times Bestseller The Republic of
Pirates: Being The True And
Surprising Story Of The Caribbean
Pirates And The Man Who Brought
Them Down , on which the NBC series
"Crossbones" (starring John
Malkovich) is based.
His fifth book, American Character: A
History of the Epic Struggle Between
Individual Liberty and the Common
Good (Viking, 2016) was a finalist for
the 2017 Chautauqua Prize and won the
2017 Maine Literary Award for
Non-fiction.
He lives in midcoast Maine, where he is
at work on his sixth book, on the
creation of America's national myth.
Full Biography.
Recent Articles.
Speaking tour.
author and journalist. He is currently
State and National Affairs Writer for
the Portland Press Herald / Maine
Sunday Telegram, where he was a 2016
Pulitzer Prize finalist and received a
2012 George Polk Award for his
investigative reporting. He is also a
contributing editor at Politico and writes
for Washington Monthly and The
Chronicle of Higher Education and
reviews books for the Washington Post.
A native of Maine, he has reported from
more than fifty foreign countries and
seven continents, and lived for more
than four years in Eastern Europe. In
2014 he was named one of the "Best
State Capitol Reporters in America" by
the Washington Post and Journalist of
the Year by the Maine Press
Association.
He is the author of American Nations:
A History of the Eleven Rival Regional
Cultures of North America (Viking,
2011) which was named one of the Best
Books of 2011 by the editors of The
New Republic and The Globalist and
won the 2012 Maine Literary Award for
Non-Fiction.
His other books include 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 New York
Times Bestseller The Republic of
Pirates: Being The True And
Surprising Story Of The Caribbean
Pirates And The Man Who Brought
Them Down , on which the NBC series
"Crossbones" (starring John
Malkovich) is based.
His fifth book, American Character: A
History of the Epic Struggle Between
Individual Liberty and the Common
Good (Viking, 2016) was a finalist for
the 2017 Chautauqua Prize and won the
2017 Maine Literary Award for
Non-fiction.
He lives in midcoast Maine, where he is
at work on his sixth book, on the
creation of America's national myth.
Full Biography.
Recent Articles.
Speaking tour.
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