Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author of history, best known for his National Book Award-winning book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, which inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and was adapted into a 2015 film. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned degrees from Brown and Duke Universities, and moved to Nantucket in 1986, where he founded the Egan Maritime Institute and became a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association.[1][2][3]

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