Colin Woodard
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Colin Woodard is an award-winning author and journalist. He is currently State and National Affairs Writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, where he was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist and received a 2012 George Polk Award for his investigative reporting.
A native of Maine, he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and seven continents, and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe. In 2014 he was named one of the "Best State Capitol Reporters in America" by the Washington Post and Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press Association.
He has covered a wide-range of issues, from ethnic conflict in the Balkans and peacekeeping in Guatemala to the destruction of coral reefs and the effects of global warming on Antarctica.
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Woodard is author of five books, many critically acclaimed. They are:
Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas 2000
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier 2004
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 2011
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good 2016