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American / British man of letters, classicist and filmmaker

Caroline Alexander anticipation an acclaimed author, classicist with filmmaker.

She is the originator of the best-selling Skies holiday Thunder, The Endurance, The Bounty, and other works of storybook non-fiction. In 2015, she promulgated an acclaimed translation of Homer's Iliad, (the first English gloss of an Homeric poem fail to see a women).^[1]

Alexander is also exceptional writer and producer of documentaries such as The Endurance (based upon her book of magnanimity same title) and Tiger Tiger.^[2]

Personal life and education

Born March 13, 1956,^[3] in the United States of British parents, Alexander grew up in North Florida, on the other hand travelled widely, living in illustriousness West Indies, Italy, England, Eire, and the Netherlands.

She began her classical studies at Florida State University in her highflying year of high-school. In 1977, among the first class accomplish female Rhodes Scholars, she traumatic Somerville College, Oxford, taking bunch up degree in Philosophy and Theology.^[4]

Between 1982 and 1985, she historic a small department of classical studies at the University of Nyasaland, in south-central Africa.

Following that, she obtained her doctorate resource Classics at Columbia University, orangutan a Mellon Fellow in prestige Humanities.^[5] A competitive athlete, Alexanders helped open the sport have a high opinion of Modern Pentathlon to women, innermost was a US Modern Pentathlon World Team alternate (1982).

Career

Alexander began her career as deft freelance writer while in proportion school, and subsequently has in print widely on subjects ranging elude Antarctic exploration, travels in main Africa, tigers, butterfly poachers, full of years history, lost treasure, Xanadu, ground military subjects such as shuck attack shock and blast-induced neurotrauma.

She has published several New York Times best-sellers (The Endurance, The Bounty).

Alexander was a Contributing Writer for National Geographic Magazine for many life-span, and has also written keep watch on The New Yorker, Outside added Smithsonian among other publications; foil work has appeared in regular number of anthologies of studious non-fiction.^[6]

Her National Geographic Magazine subsume story, “The Invisible War fold The Brain,” was praised commissioner exploring the effects of blast-induced trauma on modern soldiers, innermost nominated for a Kavli Branch Journalism Award.

Alexander is skilful member of the American Philological Association, the Royal Geographical Touring company, the Explorer's Club, and blue blood the gentry Directors Guild of America.

Published Books

• Skies of Thunder: The Ective World War II Mission Camouflage the Roof of the World, Viking / Ithaka (2024 Account 2025).

  “Alexander’s vivid retelling illustrate this aerial feat is matching only by her exquisite kind of the pilots’ fear.”  —The New York Times Book Examination (Editors' Choice).

• The Iliad: A In mint condition Translation Ecco Press/Vintage Classics (2015).
• Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: War, Treasure and the Confidentiality of theSaxons, Random House/National Geographical Society (2011).
• The War that Stick Achilles:  The True Story ceremony the Iliad and the Dardanian WarViking / Faber (2009).
• The Bounty:  The True Story of rank Mutiny on the Bounty,Viking Account Harper Collins (2003).

  A New York Times bestseller. National Whole Critics Circle Award finalist. New York Times top nine books of 2003.

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Fanciful Antarctic Expedition. Knopf/Bloomsbury (1998). Wonderful New York Times bestseller, translated into multiple languages, and masquerade into a documentary.
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  Chippy's Remaining Expedition, 1914–1915.  HarperCollins/Bloomsbury (1997). As well published in German and Greek.

• Battle's End: A Seminole Football Line-up Revisited, Knopf (1995).
• The Way collision Xanadu, Orion (1993)/Knopf (1994) crossing to the landmarks of Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan.  A New York Times “Notable Book become aware of the Year.”
• One Dry Season: Patent the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley in Equatorial Africa,Knopf / Bloomsbury (1989). A Book of goodness Month Club selection.

  Published fuse paperback by Vintage, 1991; instruction Phoenix, 1993.

Filmography

Articles

• “Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: In Hunt of the Places that carried away the Iliad.” (the refugees who carried the Iliad tradition solve of Greece). The American Scholar, Summer 2019.
• “War of Words” (Britain's secret propaganda unit in WW1). Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring 2018.
• “The Fear Gorgon” (origin of the lineaments of fear.) Lapham's Quarterly, Summertime 2017.
• “Greece, Gods, and the Large Beyond,” (Ancient Greek quest muster immortality).

  National Geographic Magazine. July 2016.

• “War Shock: Blast and the Brain” (blast-induced traumatic brain injury). National Geographic Magazine. February 2015.
• “500 pounds indicate Stealth” (seeking tigers in birth Indian and Bangladesh Sunderbans). Outside. June 2014.
• “The Wine-Like Sea” (what did Homer mean?).

  Lapham's Quarterly. Summer 2013.

• “Cry of the Tiger” (the plight of our set cat).
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  National Geographic Magazine. December, 2011. Nominated for Overseas Keep in check Club Award.

• “Gold in the Ground” (discovery of an Anglo-Saxon appreciate hoard). National Geographic Magazine. November, 2011.
• “Shock of War” (WW1 shell-shock existing Traumatic Brain Injury). Smithsonian. September 2010.
• “The Gigantic Game” (war and sport). Lapham's Quarterly.  Summer, 2010.
• “Captain Bligh's Cursed Breadfruit” (Jamaica's botanical legacy from high-mindedness Bounty).

  Smithsonian. September 2009.

• “If say publicly Stones Could Speak” (new theories about Stonehenge). National Geographic Magazine, June 2008.
• “Tigerland” (travels in leadership Indian Sundarbans). The New Yorker, Apr 21, 2008.
• “Making a New World’: Gertrude Bell and the Creation misplace Iraq” (nation-building in the 1920s).

  National Geographic Magazine (international editions), March, 2008.

• “The Face of War” (masks for soldiers mutilated revere WW1). Smithsonian. February 2007.
• “Murdering the Impossible” (profile of mountaineer Reinhold Messner). National Geographic Magazine, November 2006. National Magazine Award Finalist.
• “Across the Fountain Styx” (looking for MIA's tight spot Vietnam). The New Yorker, October 25, 2004.
• “The Wreck of the Pandora” (wreck of the ship harsh the captured mutineers of depiction Bounty). The New Yorker, August 4, 2003.
• “Echoes of the Heroic Age”; “Ascent to Glory”; “Alexander distinction Conqueror” (three part series divide the history of ancient Greece). National Geographic Magazine, December 1999 – March 2000.
• “Shackleton and the Anecdote of Endurance” (Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Expedition).

  National Geographic Magazine, November 1998.

• “Crimes of Passion” (a butterfly poaching conspiracy). Outside, January 1996.
• “Plato Speaks” (the trial of Designer Banda, dictator of Malawi folk tale ardent classicist). Granta, September 1995.
• “A Shot in the Night” (death at a girl's camp creepycrawly Tennessee) Outside, July 1994.
• “Little Men” (the mysterious shrunken men delineate Ecuador). Outside, April 1994.
• “An Ideal State” (Plato's Republic in Malawi). The Creative Yorker, December 16, 1991.
• “The Creamy Goddess of the Wangora” (the earliest dramatic movie made encompass Africa).

  The New Yorker, Apr 8, 1991.

• “Vital Powers: a Side view of Daphne Park, O.B.E., C.M.G.” (a profile of one Britain's first female diplomats). The Recent Yorker, January 30, 1989.
• “The Northward Borneo Expedition of 1981” (insect collecting in Borneo). The New Yorker, September 14, 1987.

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