NEWPORT — Nathaniel Philbrick, 61, an American author and a member of the Philbrick literary family, will be presented the Sarah Josepha Hale Award on Oct. 6th during a ceremony in the Newport Opera House.
Now in its 60th year, the award is presented by the Richards Free Library.
Philbrick, a resident of Nantucket Island, won the year 2000 National Book Award for his maritime history, “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.”
He was born in Boston and grew up in Pittsburgh, and 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.
Some of Philbrick’s other works include Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution; Sea of Glory; Bunker Hill, a City, a Siege, a Revolution; Away off Shore, Nantucket Island and its People;
Mayflower; Why Read Moby-Dick? and Ben’s Revolution.
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