Selected as a Top 10 Pick Best Books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly and landed on 13 other best-of-the-year lists, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, The Economist, and The Washington Post. Hemingway's Boat is now available in paperback!  

Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961- from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide - Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.

Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity-to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. Hemingway's Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.

Paul Hendrickson, a prize-winning feature writer for The Washington Post for more than twenty years, now teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Seminary: Looking for the Light (an NBCC finalist); The Living and the Dead (an NBA finalist); and Sons of Mississippi (an NBCC winner). He has also written for The New York Times. 

A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491.

 Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City - where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted - the center of the world. 

In this history, Mann uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493, Mann has again given readers an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination.  

Charles C. Mann is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he is the recipient of writing awards from several organizations. His 1491 won the National Academies Communication Award for the best book of the year. 

"Quite possibly, King's most ambitious and accomplished novel to date." 

-- NPR