Ian W. Toll
| Ian W. Toll | |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Notable works | Six Frigates: Epic History of Founding of the US Navy; Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942; The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944. |
Ian W. Toll (born 1967) is an American author and military historian. He lives in New York City.
Education
Toll received a degree in history from Georgetown University in 1989, and a master's degree in public policy (M.P.P.) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995.[1]
Career
Toll is the author of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy; Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942; and The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944. The latter two titles are the first two volumes of a nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War.[2]
Earlier in his career, he was a political aide and speechwriter to U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes and New York Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine. Subsequently, Toll was an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an equity research analyst at three investment banks, covering communications, software, and e-commerce stocks.[1]
Toll has also served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Humanities, a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and a lecturer at the Naval War College.
Awards
Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature[3] and the William E. Colby Military Writers Award.[1][4]
Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.[5]
The Conquering Tide was a New York Times bestseller and was selected as the best book of 2016 by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times.[6][7]
Books
- Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy, W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0393058476
- Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942, W. W. Norton, 2011. ISBN 9780393068139
- The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944, W. W. Norton, 2015. ISBN 9780393080643
References
- 1 2 3 "Ian W. Toll: Six Frigates - Pritzker Military Museum & Library - Chicago". pritzkermilitary.org.
- ↑ "Ian W. Toll". wwnorton.com.
- ↑ http://www.navalordernyc.org/previous-morison-book-awards
- ↑ "The Colby Award for Military Writers : Colby Symposium". Colby Symposium.
- ↑ "Poetry Flash > programs". poetryflash.org.
- ↑ "Best Sellers/Hardcover Nonfiction". New York Times. October 11, 2015. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
- ↑ "The Best Books of 2016". Financial Times. Financial Times. 2 December 2016.
- Author's biography at http://www.ianwtoll.com/
- Entry from the 2007 ed. of Contemporary Authors
- Author page at Amazon.com Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- Author page at Simon & Schuster.com Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- Pacific Crucible page at W. W. Norton Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- The Conquering Tide page at W. W. Norton Retrieved 2016-01-04.
External links
- Toll discusses Six Frigates at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on May 10, 2007. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Review of Six Frigates
- Review of Pacific Crucible
- Review of The Conquering Tide
- Toll at National World War II Museum
- Toll at New York Society Library