Richard J. King

Richard J. King is a Visiting Associate Professor in Maritime History and Literature with the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA. He has been sailing on ships throughout the Atlantic and Pacific for twenty-five years and in 2007 sailed across the Atlantic alone in a 28’ sailboat. He is the author of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick (Chicago UP, 2019) which won an award with the North American Society of Oceanic History, was short-listed for the Connecticut Book Award, and was a New Statesman book of the year; and Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea.