Colin Woodard

Who is Colin Woodard?

Colin Woodard is an American award winning journalist and writer, best known for his books American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America and The Lobster Coast, a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine.

He is State & National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. He received a 2012 George Polk Award for an investigative project he did for those papers. He received a 2004 Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Public Advocacy, the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He was also a finalist for a 2013 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.

His third book, The Republic of Pirates, is the basis of the forthcoming NBC drama Crossbones, written by Neil Cross and starring John Malkovich.

He is a long time foreign correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and six continents from postings in Budapest, Hungary; Zagreb, Croatia; Washington, D.C. and the US-Mexico border. His work has appeared in dozens of publications including The Economist, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Bloomberg View, Washington Monthly, and Down East, where he was a contributing editor.