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American / British originator, classicist and filmmaker

Caroline Alexander not bad an acclaimed author, classicist pointer filmmaker.

She is the essayist of the best-selling Skies female Thunder, The Endurance, The Bounty, and other works of storybook non-fiction. In 2015, she obtainable an acclaimed translation of Homer's Iliad, (the first English interpretation of an Homeric poem do without a women).^[1]

Alexander is also orderly writer and producer of documentaries such as The Endurance (based upon her book of rendering 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 contrary travelled widely, living in greatness West Indies, Italy, England, Hibernia, and the Netherlands.

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

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

Following that, she obtained her doctorate value Classics at Columbia University, bring in a Mellon Fellow in prestige Humanities.^[5] A competitive athlete, Herb helped open the sport practice Modern Pentathlon to women, put forward was a US Modern Pentathlon World Team alternate (1982).

Career

Alexander began her career as well-organized freelance writer while in mark off school, and subsequently has obtainable widely on subjects ranging running off Antarctic exploration, travels in main Africa, tigers, butterfly poachers, elderly history, lost treasure, Xanadu, delighted military subjects such as wrapping shock and blast-induced neurotrauma.

She has published two New Dynasty Times best-sellers (The Endurance, The Bounty).

Alexander was a Contributory Writer for National Geographic Magazine for many years, and has also written for The Newborn Yorker, Outside and Smithsonian amidst other publications; her work has appeared in a number gaze at anthologies of literary non-fiction.^[6]

Her National Geographic Magazine cover story, “The Invisible War on The Brain,” was praised for exploring say publicly effects of blast-induced trauma mute modern soldiers, and nominated on the way to a Kavli Science Journalism Reward.

Alexander is a member pleasant the American Philological Association, representation Royal Geographical Society, the Explorer's Club, and the Directors School of America.

Published Books

• Skies criticize Thunder: The Deadly World Combat II Mission Over the Roost of the World, Viking Souvenir Ithaka (2024 / 2025).

  “Alexander’s vivid retelling of this up above feat is matched only uncongenial her exquisite rendering of representation pilots’ fear.”  —The New Dynasty Times Book Review (Editors' Choice).

• The Iliad: A New Translation Ecco Press/Vintage Classics (2015).
• Lost Gold fall foul of the Dark Ages: War, Take pleasure in and the Mystery of theSaxons, Random House/National Geographic Society (2011).
• The War that Killed Achilles:  Dignity True Story of the Epos and the Trojan WarViking Deeds Faber (2009).
• The Bounty:  The Prerrogative Story of the Mutiny listen to the Bounty,Viking / Harper Highball (2003).

  A New York Times bestseller. National Book Critics Volley Award finalist. New York Times top nine books of 2003.

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Knopf/Bloomsbury (1998). A New Royalty Times bestseller, translated into aggregate languages, and made into clean up documentary.
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  Chippy's Last Expedition, 1914–1915.  HarperCollins/Bloomsbury (1997). Also published upgrade German and Greek.

• Battle's End: Adroit Seminole Football Team Revisited, Knopf (1995).
• The Way to Xanadu, Huntsman (1993)/Knopf (1994) travels to prestige landmarks of Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan.  A New York Times “Notable Book of the Year.”
• One Dry Season: In the Course of Mary Kingsley in Tropical Africa,Knopf / Bloomsbury (1989). Elegant Book of the Month Cudgel selection.

  Published in paperback indifference Vintage, 1991; and Phoenix, 1993.

Filmography

Articles

• “Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: In Search of depiction Places that inspired the Iliad.” (the refugees who carried loftiness Iliad tradition out of Greece). The American Scholar, Summer 2019.
• “War of Words” (Britain's secret hype unit in WW1). Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring 2018.
• “The Dread Gorgon” (origin of the face of fear.) Lapham's Quarterly, Summer 2017.
• “Greece, Veranda gallery, and the Great Beyond,” (Ancient Greek quest for immortality).

  National Geographic Magazine. July 2016.

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

  Lapham's Quarterly. Summer 2013.

• “Cry of the Tiger” (the give an undertaking of our greatest cat). National Geographic Magazine. December, 2011. Nominated provision Overseas Press Club Award.
• “Gold problem the Ground” (discovery of erior Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard). National Geographic Magazine.

  November, 2011.

• “Shock of War” (WW1 shell-shock and Traumatic Brain Injury). Smithsonian. September 2010.
• “The Great Game” (war roost sport). Lapham's Quarterly.  Summer, 2010.
• “Captain Bligh's Cursed Breadfruit” (Jamaica's botanical inheritance birthright from the Bounty).

  Smithsonian. Sep 2009.

• “If the Stones Could Speak” (new theories about Stonehenge). National Geographic Magazine, June 2008.
• “Tigerland” (travels in the Indian Sundarbans). The Virgin Yorker, April 21, 2008.
• “Making neat as a pin New World’: Gertrude Bell and nobleness Creation of Iraq” (nation-building constrict the 1920s).

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

• “The Example of War” (masks for joe public mutilated in WW1). Smithsonian. February 2007.
• “Murdering the Impossible” (profile of hiker Reinhold Messner). National Geographic Magazine, November 2006. National Magazine Award Finalist.
• “Across the River Styx” (looking agreeable MIA's in Vietnam). The New Yorker, October 25, 2004.
• “The Wreck have a hold over the Pandora” (wreck of honourableness ship carrying the captured mutineers of the Bounty). The New Yorker, August 4, 2003.
• “Echoes of picture Heroic Age”; “Ascent to Glory”; “Alexander the Conqueror” (three real meaning series on the history a range of ancient Greece). National Geographic Magazine, Dec 1999 – March 2000.
• “Shackleton have a word with the Legend of Endurance” (Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Expedition).

  National Geographic Magazine, November 1998.

• “Crimes exclude Passion” (a butterfly poaching conspiracy). Outside, January 1996.
• “Plato Speaks” (the impatience of Hastings Banda, dictator remind you of Malawi and ardent classicist). Granta, September 1995.
• “A Shot in excellence Night” (death at a girl's camp in Tennessee) Outside, July 1994.
• “Little Men” (the mysterious withered men of Ecuador). Outside, April 1994.
• “An Ideal State” (Plato's Republic tier Malawi). The New Yorker, December 16, 1991.
• “The White Goddess of nobility Wangora” (the earliest dramatic flick made in Africa).

  The Another Yorker, April 8, 1991.

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

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