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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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