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Colin Woodard (born December 3, 1968〔''Woodard, Colin 1968–'' In: ''Contemporary Authors'', Gale, 2008 ((online copy HighBeam Research ))〕) is an American 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 ''(2004), 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.〔(Congratulations to Colin Woodard, 2012 Polk Award winner | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram )〕 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. Woodard was also a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in both 2013 and 2014.〔(Colin Woodard )〕〔(2013 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management - WSJ.com )〕 In 2014, the ''Washington Post'' named him one of the "Best State Capitol Reporters in America"〔(The best state capitol reporters in America )〕 and the Maine Press Association chose him as Journalist of the Year.〔()〕 His third book, the ''New York Times'' bestseller〔()〕 ''The Republic of Pirates'', is the basis of the 2014 NBC drama ''Crossbones'', written by Neil Cross and starring John Malkovich.〔(John Malkovich to Play Blackbeard in NBC Pirate Drama Series 'Crossbones' - Hollywood Reporter )〕 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''.〔Miller, Mark, "(The True History of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag )," Game Informer, 22 March 2013.〕 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 seven 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; Polish edition: SQN, 2014, ISBN 978-83-79242337; Portuguese edition: Novo Seculo, 2014, ISBN 978-8542802771; Hungarian edition: Könyvmolyképző Kiadó, 2014, ISBN 978-9633739808 '' * ''American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Viking, 2011, ISBN 978-0143122029'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Woodard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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