Colin Woodard

Colin Woodard, an author and
award-winning journalist, writes for The
Christian Science Monitor and The
Chronicle of Higher Education. A native
of Maine, he has reported from more
than forty 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, and Ocean's End:
Travels Through Endangered Seas
(Basic Books, 2000), a narrative
non-fiction account of the deterioration
of the world's oceans.

His new book, The Republic of Pirates:
Being The True And Surprising Story Of
The Caribbean Pirates And The Man
Who Brought Them Down , has just
been published by Harcourt.