Steven Ujifusa

Steven Ujifusa is the author of A Man and His Ship, Barons of the Sea, and The Last Ships from Hamburg. He received his AB in history from Harvard University and a master’s degree in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania, and has given presentations across the country and on the high seas. He is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award. He lives with his wife, a pediatric emergency room physician, and two sons, in Philadelphia.