Page to Stage, an author series; Nathaniel Philbrick

Showings

Main Theater Thu, Jul 21, 2016 5:00 PM
INFORMATION
Rating:All Ages
Run Time:1hr.
Genre:Lecture
Category:Page to Stage
Presentations
CAST/CREW
Speaker:Nathaniel Philbrick with Natalie Jacobson

Description

"Valiant Ambition" by Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he attended Linden Elementary School and Taylor Allderdice High School.  He earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow. He was Brown University’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978, the same year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI. After working as an editor at Sailing World magazine, he wrote and edited several books about sailing, including The Passionate Sailor, Second Wind, and Yaahting: A Parody.

In 1986, Philbrick moved to Nantucket with his wife Melissa and their two children.  In 1994, he published his first book about the island’s history, Away Off Shore, followed by a study of the Nantucket’s native legacy, Abram’s Eyes. He was the founding director of Nantucket’s Egan Maritime Institute and is still a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association.

Book signing to follow in Main Lobby