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Dolin, Eric Jay
PERSONAL:
Married, wife's name, Jennifer; children: Lily, Harrison. Education:Brown University, B.A., 1983; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Religion: Jewish. Hobbies and other interests: Stamp collecting.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Marblehead, MA. Agent—c/o Author Mail, University of Massachusetts Press, P.O. Box 429, Amherst, MA 01004.
CAREER:
Independent scholar and freelance writer. National Marine Fisheries Service, fishery-policy analyst. Also worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as environmental consultant and program manager.
AWARDS, HONORS:
American Association for the Advancement of Science Writing Fellow, Business Week; Pew Research Fellow, Harvard Law School; Knauss Sea Grant Fellow, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
WRITINGS:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("Know Your Government" series), Chelsea House Publishers (Langhorne, PA), 1989.
(Editor, with Lawrence E. Susskind and J. William Breslin) International Environmental Treaty Making, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA), 1992.
(With Bob Dumaine) The Duck Stamp Story: Art, Conservation, History, Krause Publications (Iola, WI), 2000.
(Author of text) Smithsonian Book of National Wildlife Refuges, photography by John Hollingsworth and Karen Hollingsworth, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC), 2003.
Snakehead: A Fish Out of Water, Smithsonian Books (Washington, DC), 2003.
Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor; A Unique Environmental Success Story, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 2004.
Has published numerous articles on environmental topics in journals, magazines, and newspapers.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
A history of whaling in America, for Norton.
SIDELIGHTS:
Eric Jay Dolin is a writer with a passion for the conservation of wildlife. In 2003 Dolin authored a book ab
Dolin, Eric Jay 1961-
PERSONAL: Born January 12, 1961, in New York, NY; married; wife’s name Jennifer; children: Lily, Harrison. Education:Brown University, B.A., 1983; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, M.S.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Religion: Jewish. Hobbies and other interests: Stamp collecting.
ADDRESSES: Home—Marblehead, MA. Agent—Russell Galen, Scovil, Chicak, Galen Literary Agency, 276 5th Ave., Ste. 708, New York, NY 10001.
CAREER: National Marine Fisheries Service, fishery-policy analyst, 2002-07. Has also worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as environmental consultant and program manager, as an environmental consultant, and as a curatorial assistant in the mollusk department of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
AWARDS, HONORS:American Association for the Advancement of Science Writing Fellow, Business Week; Pew Research Fellow, Harvard Law School; Knauss Sea Grant Fellow, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
WRITINGS:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Know Your Government” series), Chelsea House Publishers (Langhorne, PA), 1989.
(Editor, with Lawrence E. Susskind and J. William Breslin) International Environmental Treaty Making, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA), 1992.
(With Bob Dumaine) The Duck Stamp Story: Art, Conservation, History, Krause Publications (Iola, WI), 2000.
(Author of text) Smithsonian Book of National Wildlife Refuges, photographs by John Hollingsworth and Karen Hollingsworth, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC), 2003.
Snakehead: A Fish out of Water, Smithsonian Books (Washington, DC), 2003.
Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor; A Unique Environmental Success Story, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 2004.
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, W.W. Norton &
Writing History with Eric Jay Dolin
Moderated by William M. Fowler, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University
The best-selling historian shares insights on writing history and discusses his latest book on the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War—reclaiming them and their heroic stories for history’s annals.
The story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime history is a full account of the ragtag fleet of private vessels that fought and revealed the new nation’s character. Eric Jay Dolin’s illuminating new book shows how privateers—privately owned vessels, mostly refitted merchant ships—were critical to the American victory. Nearly 2,000 set sail over the course of the war, capturing some 1,800 British ships. The British treated them as pirates, and some Americans viewed them similarly, yet privateersmen were as patriotic as their fellow Americans. Rebels at Seas creates a new pantheon of Revolutionary heroes, putting the exploits and sacrifices of such forgotten privateersmen as Captain Jonathan Haraden and Offin Boardman at the center of the conflict.
Eric Jay Dolin is the author of 15 books, including A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes, which was featured on "best of" lists from The Washington Post and numerous others. The Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe similarly awarded Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. Black Flags, Blue Waters, his account of piracy in the Americas, was equally acclaimed. Dolin’s complete works, including A History of the American Lighthouse; When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail; and Fur, Fortune, and Empire demonstrate his breadth of knowledge and mastery as a writer.
William M. American author Eric Jay Dolin (born 1961) is an American author who writes history books, which often focus on maritime topics, wildlife, and the environment. He has published fourteen books, which have won numerous awards. Dolin grew up near the coast in New York and Connecticut, and graduated from Brown University, where he majored in biology and environmental studies. After getting a master's degree in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy and planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eric and his wife Jennifer live in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with their two children. Dolin has worked as: (a) program manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; (b) environmental consultant for (i) Booz Allen Hamilton (MD) and (ii) Environmental Resources Limited (London); (c) an intern (i) at National Wildlife Federation, (ii) at the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, and (iii) for Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr. on Capitol Hill; (d) fisheries policy analyst at the National Marine Fisheries Service; (e) technical writer for the National Transportation Safety Board; (f) PEW research fellow at Harvard Law School; and (g) American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow at Business Week. Since 2007, he has been a full-time writer. Eric Jay Dolin
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