Philbrick’s passion for sailboat racing, on the other hand, was deeply personal and apparent from the start. Then in high school he read the first sentence and he was “harpooned.” Reading the novel “was a transformative experience for me it put me in the awkward situation of having to admit that my father had been right.” It remains his favorite novel. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father was an English professor specializing in maritime literature who talked about Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick so often that by the time Philbrick was a teenager, he “already hated the book, even though I hadn’t read a word of it,” he told the NEA. Nathaniel Philbrick-named after the 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne-was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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