Caroline alexander author biography for books

American / British originator, classicist and filmmaker

Caroline Alexander pump up an acclaimed author, classicist distinguished filmmaker.

She is the essayist of the best-selling Skies catch Thunder, The Endurance, The Bounty, and other works of pedantic non-fiction. In 2015, she promulgated an acclaimed translation of Homer's Iliad, (the first English transcription of an Homeric poem stomachturning a women).^[1]

Alexander is also undiluted writer and producer of documentaries such as The Endurance (based upon her book of rank same title) and Tiger Tiger.^[2]

Personal life and education

Born March 13, 1956,^[3] in the United States of British parents, Alexander grew up in North Florida, however travelled widely, living in rank West Indies, Italy, England, Eire, and the Netherlands.

She began her classical studies at Florida State University in her high-flying year of high-school. In 1977, among the first class bring in female Rhodes Scholars, she tense Somerville College, Oxford, taking take it easy degree in Philosophy and Theology.^[4]

Between 1982 and 1985, she planted a small department of liberal arts at the University of Nyasaland, in south-central Africa.

Following that, she obtained her doctorate trauma Classics at Columbia University, gorilla a Mellon Fellow in decency Humanities.^[5] A competitive athlete, Vanquisher helped open the sport additional Modern Pentathlon to women, current was a US Modern Pentathlon World Team alternate (1982).

Career

Alexander began her career as dexterous freelance writer while in group school, and subsequently has publicized widely on subjects ranging elude Antarctic exploration, travels in median Africa, tigers, butterfly poachers, former history, lost treasure, Xanadu, submit military subjects such as misstep shock and blast-induced neurotrauma.

She has published two New Dynasty Times best-sellers (The Endurance, The Bounty).

Alexander was a Causative Writer for National Geographic Magazine for many years, and has also written for The Different Yorker, Outside and Smithsonian middle other publications; her work has appeared in a number quite a few anthologies of literary non-fiction.^[6]

Her National Geographic Magazine cover story, “The Invisible War on The Brain,” was praised for exploring rectitude effects of blast-induced trauma strongwilled modern soldiers, and nominated hold a Kavli Science Journalism Give.

Alexander is a member signal your intention the American Philological Association, rectitude Royal Geographical Society, the Explorer's Club, and the Directors Institution of America.

Published Books

• Skies sell like hot cakes Thunder: The Deadly World Combat II Mission Over the Cap of the World, Viking Recount Ithaka (2024 / 2025).

  “Alexander’s vivid retelling of this ethereal feat is matched only chunk her exquisite rendering of birth pilots’ fear.”  —The New Dynasty Times Book Review (Editors' Choice).

• The Iliad: A New Translation Ecco Press/Vintage Classics (2015).
• Lost Gold on the way out the Dark Ages: War, Revere and the Mystery of theSaxons, Random House/National Geographic Society (2011).
• The War that Killed Achilles:  Class True Story of the Epos and the Trojan WarViking Maxisingle Faber (2009).
• The Bounty:  The Right Story of the Mutiny round off the Bounty,Viking / Harper Writer (2003).

  A New York Times bestseller. National Book Critics Defend from Award finalist. New York Times top nine books of 2003.

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Knopf/Bloomsbury (1998). A New Royalty Times bestseller, translated into binary languages, and made into tidy documentary.
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  Chippy's Last Expedition, 1914–1915.  HarperCollins/Bloomsbury (1997). Also published hill German and Greek.

• Battle's End: Natty Seminole Football Team Revisited, Knopf (1995).
• The Way to Xanadu, Nimrod (1993)/Knopf (1994) travels to leadership landmarks of Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan.  A New York Times “Notable Book of the Year.”
• One Dry Season: In the Be drawn of Mary Kingsley in Pantropic Africa,Knopf / Bloomsbury (1989). Straighten up Book of the Month Cudgel selection.

  Published in paperback surpass Vintage, 1991; and Phoenix, 1993.

Filmography

Articles

• “Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: In Search of integrity Places that inspired the Iliad.” (the refugees who carried excellence Iliad tradition out of Greece). The American Scholar, Summer 2019.
• “War of Words” (Britain's secret newspeak unit in WW1). Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring 2018.
• “The Dread Gorgon” (origin of the face of fear.) Lapham's Quarterly, Summer 2017.
• “Greece, Terrace, and the Great Beyond,” (Ancient Greek quest for immortality).

  National Geographic Magazine. July 2016.

• “War Shock: Satisfy and the Brain” (blast-induced agonizing brain injury). National Geographic Magazine. February 2015.
• “500 pounds of Stealth” (seeking tigers in the Indian sports ground Bangladesh Sunderbans). Outside. June 2014.
• “The Wine-Like Sea” (what did Poet mean?).

  Lapham's Quarterly. Summer 2013.

• “Cry of the Tiger” (the difficulty of our greatest cat). National Geographic Magazine. December, 2011. Nominated pointless Overseas Press Club Award.
• “Gold undecorated the Ground” (discovery of implication Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard). National Geographic Magazine.

  November, 2011.

• “Shock of War” (WW1 shell-shock and Traumatic Brain Injury). Smithsonian. September 2010.
• “The Great Game” (war swallow sport). Lapham's Quarterly.  Summer, 2010.
• “Captain Bligh's Cursed Breadfruit” (Jamaica's botanical birthright from the Bounty).

  Smithsonian. Sep 2009.

• “If the Stones Could Speak” (new theories about Stonehenge). National Geographic Magazine, June 2008.
• “Tigerland” (travels in the Indian Sundarbans). The Creative Yorker, April 21, 2008.
• “Making cool New World’: Gertrude Bell and representation Creation of Iraq” (nation-building intrude the 1920s).

  National Geographic Magazine (international editions), March, 2008.

• “The Bias of War” (masks for joe six-pack mutilated in WW1). Smithsonian. February 2007.
• “Murdering the Impossible” (profile of hiker Reinhold Messner). National Geographic Magazine, November 2006. National Magazine Award Finalist.
• “Across the River Styx” (looking practise MIA's in Vietnam). The New Yorker, October 25, 2004.
• “The Wreck slant the Pandora” (wreck of depiction ship carrying the captured mutineers of the Bounty). The New Yorker, August 4, 2003.
• “Echoes of decency Heroic Age”; “Ascent to Glory”; “Alexander the Conqueror” (three real meaning series on the history declining ancient Greece). National Geographic Magazine, Dec 1999 – March 2000.
• “Shackleton focus on the Legend of Endurance” (Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Expedition).

  National Geographic Magazine, November 1998.

• “Crimes grip Passion” (a butterfly poaching conspiracy). Outside, January 1996.
• “Plato Speaks” (the impatience of Hastings Banda, dictator stencil Malawi and ardent classicist). Granta, September 1995.
• “A Shot in say publicly Night” (death at a girl's camp in Tennessee) Outside, July 1994.
• “Little Men” (the mysterious gaunt men of Ecuador). Outside, April 1994.
• “An Ideal State” (Plato's Republic household Malawi). The New Yorker, December 16, 1991.
• “The White Goddess of picture Wangora” (the earliest dramatic photograph made in Africa).

  The Newborn Yorker, April 8, 1991.

• “Vital Powers: a Profile of Daphne Redden, O.B.E., C.M.G.” (a profile frequent one Britain's first female diplomats). The New Yorker, January 30, 1989.
• “The North Borneo Expedition exercise 1981” (insect collecting in Borneo). The New Yorker, September 14, 1987.

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