About Colin Woodard Books
Colin Woodard, a New York Times bestselling author, historian, and award-winning journalist, is director of Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University's Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen languages and have inspired an NBC television drama. A longtime foreign correspondent, he reported from more than fifty countries on seven continents and, as an investigative reporter at Maine's Portland Press Herald, won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Politico, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian, and dozens of other major publications. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he lives in Maine.
