Richard J. King

Author and illustrator Richard J. King wrote Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick, lauded in Science, Nature, and American Scholar. He also wrote Lobster, which was acclaimed by the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History, which was short-listed for the ASLE Creative Book Award and rated as one of the top five science books of the year by Library Journal. King co-edits the "Searchable Sea Literature" website, has published widely on maritime topics in scholarly and popular magazines, and he writes and illustrates a regular column on marine environmental history for Sea History magazine. He is a visiting professor at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA. For more, please see "www.richardjking.info"