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• ‟ Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

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• ‟ I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

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• ‟ If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

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• ‟ As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

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• ‟ As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

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• ‟ I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

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• ‟ History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.

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• ‟ I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

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