Laurence Bergreen

About Laurence Bergreen

Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer, historian, and chronicler of exploration. His books have been translated into over twenty languages worldwide. His latest book is COLUMBUS (Viking, 2011). In 2007, Knopf published Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu. His previous work, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, was published to international acclaim by William Morrow/HarperCollins in October 2003. Bergreen is also the author of Voyage to Mars: NASA’s Search for Life Beyond Earth, a narrative of NASA’s exploration of Mars, published in November and Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, 1997. It appeared on many “Best Books of 1997” lists, including those of the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Publishers Weekly. In 1994, Simon & Schuster published his Capone: The Man and the Era. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection, it has been published in numerous foreign languages, was optioned by Miramax, and was a New York Times “Notable Book.” His biography, As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, appeared in 1990. This book won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and was a New York Times “Notable Book.\" His previous biography, James Agee: A Life, was also critically acclaimed and was a New York Times “Notable Book” for 1984. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and Military History Quarterly. In 1995, he served as a judge for the National Book Awards and in 1991 as a judge for the PEN/Albrand Nonfiction Award. A frequent lecturer at major universities and symposiums, he also serves as a Featured Historian for the History Channel. Mr. Bergreen graduated from Harvard University in 1972. He is a member of PEN American Center, The Explorers Club, the Authors Guild, and is a Trustee of the New York Society Library. He is represented by Suzanne Gluck of William Morris Endeavor in New York.Specialties: Historian, biographer, lecturer

Experience

1. Author

   HarperCollins Publishers

   Mar 1979 — Present · US

   Bestselling author of 15 works of nonfiction, 30+languages world wide

Education

• Harvard University

  BA

  1969 — 1972

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