Colin Woodard (USA)

Colin Woodard (born December 3, 1968) is an American, award-winning journalist and writer, best known for his books American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011), The Republic of Pirates (2007), and The Lobster Coast (2005), a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine. His first book, Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas, appeared in 2000.

He is State & National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. He received a 2012 George Polk Award for an investigative project he did for those papers.[2] He received a 2004 Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Public Advocacy (for his global environmental reporting), the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Non-Fiction (for American Nations), and a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He was also a finalist for a 2013 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. In 2014, the Washington Post named him one of the "Best State Capitol Reporters in America".

His third book, The Republic of Pirates, is the basis of the forthcoming NBC drama Crossbones, written by Neil Cross and starring John Malkovich. Woodard was also a historical consultant for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, which was also set in the time period covered in Republic of Pirates.

He is a long-time foreign correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and six continents, from postings in Budapest, Hungary; Zagreb, Croatia; Washington, D.C.; and the US–Mexico border. His work has appeared in dozens of publications including The Economist, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Bloomberg View, The Guardian, Politico Magazine, Washington Monthly, and Down East, where he was a contributing editor.

A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he lives in midcoast Maine.

Selected works: 

Ocean's End: Travel through Endangered Seas, Basic Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0465015719 ; Chinese edition: Yiwen, 2002, ISBN 978-7532728022
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, Viking, 2004, ISBN 978-0143035343
The Republic of Pirates: Being The True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down, Harcourt, 2007, ISBN 978-0156034623; UK edition: Pan MacMillan, 2014, ISBN 978-1447243939 ; Spanish edition: Critica, 2008,ISBN 978-8484321323 ; Danish edition: Borgens Forlag, 2008, ISBN 978-8721031985
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Viking, 2011, ISBN 978-0143122029

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Woodard