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 other 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 35 various maritime and literary
topics.
Mr.
Macomber is the author of the acclaimed Honor Series of naval novels,
with readers across North America and Europe. His awards include an
Outstanding Achievement Award 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—was released to
bookstores and has garnered great reviews from critics and readers.
Set in 1886 New York City, Havana, Key West, Tampa, and SW Florida,
the story is woven through Cuban revolutionary activities in Florida which
resulted in 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 winter lecture tour across the Pacific and an autumn
tour 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.
This
autumn, he will be guest author/lecturer aboard Queen Victoria,
visiting Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, France and Spain. Mr.
Macomber has also been invited by the Supreme Allied Commander
Europe to give a lecture at NATO. Afterward, he will be
guest author/lecturer aboard the new Seabourn liner Legend,
enroute from Lisbon to Florida.
After
his return from the lecture tour, he is hosting his annual Key West
Reader Rendezvous in late November/early December. This
hilarious three day gathering of his fans is just one of his Reader
Rendezvous each year to celebrate the newest novel with readers--he
also has them at Washington, central Florida, and on Pine Island, in
southwest Florida.
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 southwest Florida fishing village on the same
coast 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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