Roosevelt Naval History Prize and the Albion-Monroe Award from the National Maritime Historical Society. His next book Sea of Glory was published in 2003 and won the Theodore and Franklin D. In 2019, the National Endowment for the Arts added the book to their ever-growing library of 32 titles in the NEA Big Read program under which libraries and non-profits can apply for grants in order to develop in-depth, community-wide programming around a common book. The book also inspired a 2001 Dateline special on NBC as well as the 2010 PBS American Experience film “Into the Deep” by Ric Burns.
The book was the basis of the 2015 movie of the same title directed by Ron Howard. In 2000, Philbrick published the New York Times bestseller, In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.
He was the founding director of Nantucket’s Egan Maritime Institute and is a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association.
In 1994, he published his first book about the island’s history, Away Off Shore, followed in 1998 by a study of the Nantucket’s native legacy, Abram’s Eyes. In 1986, Philbrick moved to Nantucket with his wife Melissa and their two children.
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