Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author of history, winner of the National Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, based on what inspired Herman Melville to author Moby-Dick, won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was adapted as a film in 2015.
- Occupation
- writer, historian, sailor, author
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 11, 1956
- Website
- http://nathanielphilbrick.com/