Colin Woodard

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Colin Woodard (  [ ˈwʊdɑːrd ] ; born December 3, 1968 in Waterville , Maine ) is an American journalist and writer. Please click to listen!Play

life and work

Woodard grew up in Maine and studied at Tufts University near Boston . In 1989 he completed an exchange semester at Corvinus University in Budapest and experienced the upheavals at the end of the Cold War first hand. During this time he began writing freelance as a foreign correspondent for American newspapers, first for the Chronicle of Higher Education and later for the Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others . In 1991 he completed his studies with a Bachelor of Arts , then moved to Budapest and worked as a journalist in Eastern Europe. In 1995 he returned to the United States back to attend the University of Chicago (English. International Relations international relations ) to study. He completed his studies with a Master of Arts at the end of 1996 and was awarded the University's Morton Kaplan Prize for his master’s thesis entitled Balkan Ghosts and their Masters: The Politics of Ethno-Nationalism in Romania .

At the end of 1996 Woodard moved to Zagreb for a short time to work as a foreign correspondent on the Balkan conflict . He then reported on environmental problems from all over the world for two years. In total, he reported from 50 countries. He currently (2016) reports on national and state affairs for the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram, and is a contributor to the political magazine Politico .

In addition to his work as a newspaper correspondent, he also wrote several non-fiction books, including The Republic of Pirates , which describes piracy in the Caribbean and on the south coast of North America from 1696 to 1732. This book served as the template for the television series Crossbones , which portrays the pirate Blackbeard , played by John Malkovich . Woodard was a consultant for the computer game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag , whose plot also deals with pirates at the beginning of the 18th century.

Woodard has received several awards throughout his career. In 2004 he received the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Public Advocacy for his reporting on environmental issues. In 2012 he received the George Polk Award in the education reporting category for Special Report: The profit motive behind virtual schools in Maine , a background research on online teaching in the school system of the state of Maine . In the same year he was also awarded the literature prize for non-fiction books in his home state ( Maine Literary Award for Non-Fiction ).

Works

  • Ocean's End: Travel through Endangered Seas , Basic Books, New York 2000, ISBN 0465015700 .
  • The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier . Viking, New York 2004, ISBN 0670033243 .
  • The Republic of Pirates: Being The True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down . Harcourt, Orlando 2007, ISBN 978-0-151-01302-9 .
  • American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America . Viking, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-670-02296-0 .
  • Special Report: The profit motive behind virtual schools in Maine . Portland Press Herald, September 2, 2012
  • American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good . Viking, March 15, 2016

literature

  • Woodard, Colin 1968– In: Contemporary Authors , Gale, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Woodard, Colin 1968– In: Contemporary Authors , Gale, 2008 ( online copy of HighBeam Research ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed May 9, 2014)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cir.uchicago.edu
  3. ↑ a b http://www.huffingtonpost.com/colin-woodard/ (accessed May 9, 2014)
  4. ↑ a b c http://www.colinwoodard.com/biography.html (accessed April 19, 2016)
  5. ↑ Matt Miller: The True History Of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Game Informer, March 22, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gameinformer.com  
personal data
SURNAME Woodard, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterville (Maine)