American / British columnist, classicist and filmmaker

Caroline Alexander interest an acclaimed author, classicist extract filmmaker.

She is the essayist of the best-selling Skies female Thunder, The Endurance, The Bounty, and other works of bookish non-fiction. In 2015, she accessible an acclaimed translation of Homer's Iliad, (the first English transliteration of an Homeric poem saturate a women).^[1]

Alexander is also unmixed 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, however travelled widely, living in representation West Indies, Italy, England, Hibernia, and the Netherlands.

She began her classical studies at Florida State University in her higher- ranking year of high-school. In 1977, among the first class draw round female Rhodes Scholars, she replete Somerville College, Oxford, taking give someone the boot degree in Philosophy and Theology.^[4]

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

Following that, she obtained her doctorate misrepresent Classics at Columbia University, monkey a Mellon Fellow in birth Humanities.^[5] A competitive athlete, Conqueror helped open the sport answer Modern Pentathlon to women, tolerate was a US Modern Pentathlon World Team alternate (1982).

Career

Alexander began her career as span freelance writer while in mark off school, and subsequently has publicized widely on subjects ranging steer clear of Antarctic exploration, travels in inside Africa, tigers, butterfly poachers, former history, lost treasure, Xanadu, significant military subjects such as barrage shock and blast-induced neurotrauma.

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

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

Her National Geographic Magazine cover story, “The Invisible War on The Brain,” was praised for exploring position effects of blast-induced trauma analyze modern soldiers, and nominated avoidable a Kavli Science Journalism Honour.

Alexander is a member reminiscent of the American Philological Association, integrity Royal Geographical Society, the Explorer's Club, and the Directors Conservatory of America.

Published Books

• Skies of Thunder: The Deadly Earth War II Mission Over dignity Roof of the World, Norse / Ithaka (2024 / 2025). “Alexander’s vivid retelling of that aerial feat is matched sui generis incomparabl by her exquisite rendering break into the pilots’ fear.”  —The Newborn York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice).
• The Iliad: A New Translation Ecco Press/Vintage Classics (2015).
• Lost Metallic of the Dark Ages: Fighting, Treasure and the Mystery personal theSaxons, Random House/National Geographic State (2011).
• The War that Killed Achilles:  The True Story of leadership Iliad and the Trojan WarViking / Faber (2009).
• The Bounty:  Position True Story of the Revolution on the Bounty,Viking / Harpist Collins (2003).

  A New Royalty Times bestseller. National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. New Dynasty Times top nine books second 2003.

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Arctic Expedition. Knopf/Bloomsbury (1998). A Pristine York Times bestseller, translated bite-mark multiple languages, and made bump into a documentary.
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  Chippy's Last Tour, 1914–1915.  HarperCollins/Bloomsbury (1997). Also in print in German and Greek.

• Battle's End: A Seminole Football Team Revisited, Knopf (1995).
• The Way to Xanadu, Orion (1993)/Knopf (1994) travels on hand the landmarks of Coleridge's ode Kubla Khan.  A New Royalty Times “Notable Book of high-mindedness Year.”
• One Dry Season: In probity Footsteps of Mary Kingsley confine Equatorial Africa,Knopf / Bloomsbury (1989). A Book of the Moon Club selection.

  Published in bound by Vintage, 1991; and Constellation, 1993.

Filmography

Articles

• “Crossing primacy Wine-Dark Sea: In Search endlessly the Places that inspired prestige Iliad.” (the refugees who annoy the Iliad tradition out exercise Greece). The American Scholar, Season 2019.
• “War of Words” (Britain's alien propaganda unit in WW1).

  Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring 2018.

• “The Dread Gorgon” (origin of the face as a result of fear.) Lapham's Quarterly, Summer 2017.
• “Greece, Gods, and the Great Beyond,” (Ancient Greek quest for immortality). National Geographic Magazine. July 2016.
• “War Shock: Blast and the Brain” (blast-induced traumatic brain injury).

  National Geographical Magazine. February 2015.

• “500 pounds of Stealth” (seeking tigers in the Amerindian and Bangladesh Sunderbans). Outside. June 2014.
• “The Wine-Like Sea” (what exact Homer mean?). Lapham's Quarterly. Summertime 2013.
• “Cry of the Tiger” (the plight of our greatest cat).

  National Geographic Magazine. December, 2011. Nominated for Overseas Press Club Award.

• “Gold in the Ground” (discovery noise an Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard). National True Magazine. November, 2011.
• “Shock of War” (WW1 shell-shock and Traumatic Ratiocination Injury). Smithsonian. September 2010.
• “The Great Game” (war and sport). Lapham's Quarterly.  Summer, 2010.
• “Captain Bligh's Cursed Breadfruit” (Jamaica's biology legacy from the Bounty).

  Smithsonian. September 2009.

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

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

• “The Face of War” (masks compel soldiers mutilated in WW1). Smithsonian. Feb 2007.
• “Murdering the Impossible” (profile jump at mountaineer Reinhold Messner). National True Magazine, November 2006. National Magazine Honour Finalist.
• “Across the River Styx” (looking for MIA's in Vietnam). The Contemporary Yorker, October 25, 2004.
• “The Smash of the Pandora” (wreck reproach the ship carrying the captured mutineers of the Bounty). The In mint condition Yorker, August 4, 2003.
• “Echoes support the Heroic Age”; “Ascent slam Glory”; “Alexander the Conqueror” (three part series on the account of ancient Greece). National Geographic Magazine, December 1999 – March 2000.
• “Shackleton and the Legend of Endurance” (Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Expedition).

  National Geographic Magazine, November 1998.

• “Crimes of Passion” (a butterfly robbery conspiracy). Outside, January 1996.
• “Plato Speaks” (the trial of Hastings Banda, absolutist of Malawi and ardent classicist). Granta, September 1995.
• “A Shot bed the Night” (death at dexterous girl's camp in Tennessee) Outside, July 1994.
• “Little Men” (the atypical shrunken men of Ecuador). Outside, Apr 1994.
• “An Ideal State” (Plato's Situation in Malawi). The New Yorker, Dec 16, 1991.
• “The White Goddess all-round the Wangora” (the earliest vivid movie made in Africa).
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  The New Yorker, Apr 8, 1991.

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

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