Authors at sea : modern American writers remember their naval service / edited by Robert Shenk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shenk, Robert, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea stories, American.

United States--History, Naval--20th century--Literary collections.

United States.

Naval history.

Naval art and science--Literary collections.

Naval art and science.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

United States. Navy--Biography.

United States. Navy.

War stories, American.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Biographies.

War stories, American.

Physical Description:

xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [1997]

Summary:

Seven Pulitzer Prize winners and three Bancroft Prize winners are among the authors featured in this collection of works by eminent American writers who shared a common experience: service in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard during World War II. Best-selling novelists, historians, science writers, and journalists, most of these authors are well known - Herman Wouk, James Michener, Alex Haley, C. Vann Woodward, Russell Baker, Edward L. Beach, Carl Rowan, Ben Bradlee, Louis Auchincloss, and Samuel Eliot Morison, to name a few. But readers may not be aware of their wartime naval service. The authors write about duty on all kinds of ships - from carriers to submarines to LSTs - and service in all theaters and at all periods of the war, from beginning to end. They recount a variety of experiences: submarine attacks, kamikaze hits, storms, homesickness, nights on the town, leadership challenges, personality conflicts. Most wrote after years of reflection and decades spent developing writing skills.

ISBN:

1557507996

OCLC:

35110229