William McCloskey

William McCloskey Jr., a one-time Coast Guard officer, merchant seaman, and crewman on several commercial fishing boats, as well as reporter for the Baltimore Sun and senior staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has worked on pitching decks all over the world, with crews of many nations. His other books about commercial fishing include the novels Breakers and Raiders, and the nonfiction titles Their Fathers' Work and Fish Decks. His work has appeared in...See more

William McCloskey Jr., a one-time Coast Guard officer, merchant seaman, and crewman on several commercial fishing boats, as well as reporter for the Baltimore Sun and senior staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has worked on pitching decks all over the world, with crews of many nations. His other books about commercial fishing include the novels Breakers and Raiders, and the nonfiction titles Their Fathers' Work and Fish Decks. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Audubon, International Wildlife, National Fisherman, Fishing News International (London), and elsewhere. See less