Colin Woodard

Colin Woodard , a New York Times bestselling author and historian, is the state and national affairs writer at the Portland Press Herald , where he received a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. A longtime foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle , he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and six continents. His work has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post ...See more

Colin Woodard , a New York Times bestselling author and historian, is the state and national affairs writer at the Portland Press Herald , where he received a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. A longtime foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle , he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and six continents. His work has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Economist , Smithsonian, Politico , and dozens of other publications. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he is the author of American Nations , American Character , The Lobster Coast , The Republic of Pirates , and Ocean's End . He lives in Maine. See less