Robert N. Macomber is an internationally recognized award-winning
maritime writer, lecturer, and television commentator. He is a
lecturer in the Distinguished Military Author Series at the Center for
Army Analysis at Fort Belvoir, near Washington DC, and has presented
at the U.S. Southern Command’s Notable Military Author Series, the
West Point Society, and at the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Mr. Macomber has been an annual guest author and speaker aboard
the Queen Mary 2 since her maiden voyage, as well as aboard the
Queen Victoria, and the Silver Sea fleet of ultra-luxury
liners. He is also a maritime commentator for Florida PBS
documentaries, a magazine writer, and a naval history lecturer for the
American History Forum and the Civil War Education Association. His
lectures span 33 various maritime and literary topics.
Mr.
Macomber is the author of the acclaimed Honor Series of naval novels,
with readers in ten countries. His awards include the Outstanding
Achievement Award of Florida for his non-fiction work on Florida’s
maritime history, the Patrick Smith Literary Award for Best Historical
Novel of Florida (At the Edge of Honor), and the John Esten
Cooke Literary Award for Best Work in Southern Fiction (Point of
Honor). He is the guest author at
regional and international
book festivals, and was named by Florida Monthly Magazine as
one of the 22 Most Intriguing Floridians of 2006 and The Most
Intriguing Author. His sixth novel, A Different Kind of Honor,
won the highest national honor in his genre—the American Library
Association’s 2008
W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. His
seventh novel, The Honored Dead, came out in March of 2009 to
rave reviews in the United States and Great Britain.
On
March 1st, 2010, the eagerly awaited eighth novel in the
Honor Series—The Darkest Shade of Honor—will be released to
bookstores. Set in 1886 New York City, Havana, Key West, Tampa, and SW
Florida, the story is woven through the Cuban revolutionary activities
in Florida and the most catastrophic event in Key West history, when
over half the city was destroyed.
Each
year, Mr. Macomber travels approximately 15,000 sea miles around the
globe giving maritime lectures and researching his novels, including
an annual lecture tour across the Pacific and another in Europe. He is
well known for the detailed research and vivid descriptions in his
work, even going to the point of making the voyages, visiting the
lands, and meeting the cultures he writes about.
When
not on lecture, research, or book tour journeys, Mr. Macomber lives a
simple life in a small bungalow by Serenity Bay at Matlacha Island.
The community is an old Florida fishing village on the same southwest
coast of the peninsula where he grew up as a sailor. For more
information about Mr. Macomber’s fascinating life and work, visit
his website at www.robertmacomber.com.
He enjoys interacting with readers and welcomes email at macomber@robertmacomber.com.
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