AND, HEREWITH . . . THE LISTS . . .
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Books:
Exotic Intruders: The Introduction of Plants and Animals to New Zealand. Auckland, NZ: Heinemann, 1983.
Fulbright in New Zealand. Wellington, NZ: NZ-US Educational Foundation, 1988.
Abigail: A Novel. New York: Random House, 1988; Auckland: Macmillan, 1988; London: Macmillan, 1989; London: Mandarin, 1990; New York: Bantam, 1990; Germany: List, 1991.
A Promise of Gold. New York: Bantam, 1990; London: Macmillan, 1991.
Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920. Auckland: Collins, 1991; University Press of New England, 2001.
Murder at the Brian Boru. Auckland: HarperCollins, 1992.
“She Was a Sister Sailor”: The Whaling Journals of Mary Brewster, 1845-1851 Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Publications, 1992.
Captain’s Daughter, Coasterman’s Wife: The Story of Carrie Hubbard Davis. Orient, New York, 1995.
The Sailing Circle: 19th Century Seafaring Women from New York. Three Village Historical Society & Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, New York, 1996.
Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998; London: Souvenir, 1998; Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike [large print] Press, 1999; New York: Touchstone, 1999.
She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000; New York: Touchstone, 2001. (Chosen by Independent Booksellers for feature on PBS History Channel, C-Span; Roundtable, International Journal of Maritime History.)
Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea Under Sail. New York and London: Routledge, 2000 (paperback 2001).
In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon, 1841-1845. New York: Algonquin, 2003.
A Watery Grave. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004.
Shark Island. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005.
Run Afoul. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Deadly Shoals. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.
Periodicals:
“‘My Dear Wife’: the story of John and Henrietta Deblois”, Newport History, 60:1 205 (1987), 4-12.
“More decency and order: women and whalemen in the Pacific”, Log of Mystic Seaport, 39:2 (1987), 65-74.
“Rough Medicine: doctoring the whalemen”, Dukes County Intelligencer, 30:2 (1988), 3-15.
“Those Female Journals”, Log of Mystic Seaport, 40:4 (1989), 115-25.
“Vineyarders Catch The 1849 Gold Bug”, Dukes County Intelligencer, 31:1 (1989), 3-19.
“Partners in History: The Bay of Islands And Martha’s Vineyard”, Dukes County Intelligencer, 33:2 (1991), 67-88.
“‘She Was a Sister Sailor’—Mary Brewster, True Woman, Whaling Wife”, The Log of Mystic Seaport, 44:4 (1993), 98-104.
“The Sad Voyage of Eliza Russell”, Dukes County Intelligencer, 36:1 (1994), 37-43.
“Petticoat Whalers”, Seaport, 29:1 (Spring 1995), 8-13.
“Petticoat Whalers, Sister Sailors”, Sea History, 74 (Summer 1995).
“Women in the Shipboard Mess”, Nautical Collector, 14 (August 1996).
“Holmes Hole Welcomes the Bartletts”, Dukes County Intelligencer, 40:1 (1998): 42-43.
“Dr. John Tweedy’s Bill of Medicines, Newport, Nov. 8th, 1743 for the Privateer Sloop Revenge gathered before her next voyage”, No Quarter Given, vi:5 (1999): 6-9.
“Women’s Art and the Life of a Sailor”, AntiquesAmerica.com (2000)
“‘A more villainous set of faces I never saw’: Encounters Between Captains’ Wives and Pacific Pirates, 1831-1883”, Mains’l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History, v. 36, no. 4 (Fall 2000): 34-39.
"Charley Brown, Steward, Reminisces About Whaling", Dukes County Intelligencer, 43:3 (Feb. 2002): 129-136.
"Brethren of the Sea", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2004: 20-34.
"Fallen", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb. 2006.
“Lady Castaways”, Mains’l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History, 42:4 (Fall 2006): 16-32.
Book reviews for:
The Boston Globe, The Listener, Dominion Post, New Zealand Herald, Great Circle, William & Mary Quarterly, Northern Mariner, American Neptune, Log of Mystic Seaport, History Now, Sea History.
Awards:
1984 PEN and Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Prose
1986 Fulbright Fellowship
1992 John Lyman Award for Best Book of American Maritime History (She Was a
Sister Sailor)
1993-1996 William Steeple Davis Trust, Writer in Residence, Orient, New York
1994-1996 Project Writer and Historian for a museum exhibit, The Sailing Circle, which was cosponsored by two Long Island institutions: the Three Village Historical Society, East Setauket, and the Whaling Museum, Cold Spring Harbor. The project received substantial funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, in addition to funding from other bodies, both state and private. Opened first at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum in 1995, moved on to Mystic Seaport Museum; received full-page articles in the New York Times and Newsday; record visitor attendance.
1996 Award of Merit given to the project by the American Association for State and Local History; also the Albert B. Corey Award, which is granted by the AASLH at rare intervals for projects “that best display the qualities of vigor, scholarship, and imagination.”
1998 New York Public Library Award for Best Book to Remember list (Hen
Frigates).
1999 L. Byrne Waterman Award for outstanding contributions to history and women’s history.
2000 Creative New Zealand development grant
2001 John David Stout Research Fellowship, University of Wellington
2005/6 Consultant, National Endowment of the Humanities-funded project, with the Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, virtual exhibit, "Children on Whaling Ships".
