Eric Wiberg is an author and historian based in New York City where he was born. He grew up in Nassau, Bahamas to parents from Sweden and the US then attended New England boarding schools and Boston College. Age 23 found him as captain of a 68-foot sailing yacht from the Galapagos to New Zealand. By 25 he was a licensed 100-ton captain and relocated to Singapore where he operated tankers for three years. On return to Newport RI he founded a yacht delivery agency, Echo, which is still going, and in 2009 a publisher, Island Books. He has sailed over 75,000 miles on over 100 vessels in some 60 countries since 1987. After obtaining degrees in maritime law and marine affairs he relocated from New England to the New York area in 2006. He has been an executive recruiter, media salesman, tug marketer, offshore wind blogger, and public speaker. Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Discovery Channel, French, Spanish, and Norwegian TV have all interviewed him. His agent represented Sinatra, Marilyn, and a pope, and genres he's published in included script-writing, biography, history, academia, memoir, children's writing, and humor. A trilogy on U-Boats in New England, Bermuda and Bahamas in WWII resulted in Amazon listed the final book as a #1 New Release, submarines, in 2019. He lives near his son, Felix.
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