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Ben Hellwarth

Ben Hellwarth
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Ben Hellwarth

Ben Hellwarth grew up in Los Angeles and began reporting, writing, and editing for papers in the Bay Area after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley. He won a number of notable journalism awards in the 1990s as a staff writer for the Santa Barbara News-Press, then part of The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group. He divides his time between southern California and western Pennsylvania. Sealab is his first book. Visit him at www.benhellwarth.com.

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Sealab will be released on January 10, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 10, 2012
Sealab is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 10, 2012

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Los Angeles Daily News, February 4, 2012
...Place discuss "The Lotus Eaters" by Tatjana Soli, 10:30 a.m. 23630 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita. 661-254-6604. Ben Hellwarth signs "Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor," 2 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third St., Santa...
Huffington Post, February 2, 2012
...Journalist is the author of the new book SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor . --- Back in the 1960s, it looked as though the space race might be matched by a race in the opposite direction. As the first...
Big Think, February 15, 2012
...BRAVO to the Russian scientists who breached Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica, which is over 2 miles below the surface. This is quite a feat of engineering that experts say would have been unimaginable a few decades ago. And yet the...
Santa Monica Mirror, February 11, 2012
...310.828.5011, mckinley.smmusd.org Saturday, February 11 “SEALAB” author to speak and sign new book. Journalist Ben Hellwarth, who grew up surfing at Santa Monica beaches, will discuss his first book, “SEALAB: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live...
Slashdot, February 5, 2012
..."'Some people remember Sealab as being a classified program, but it was trying not to be,' says Ben Hellwarth, author of the new book Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor, which aims to 'bring some long overdue attention...
Los Angeles Daily News, February 4, 2012
...Place discuss "The Lotus Eaters" by Tatjana Soli, 10:30 a.m. 23630 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita. 661-254-6604. Ben Hellwarth signs "Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor," 2 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third St., Santa...
Huffington Post, February 2, 2012
...Journalist is the author of the new book SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor . --- Back in the 1960s, it looked as though the space race might be matched by a race in the opposite direction. As the first...
Huffington Post, February 2, 2012
...Journalist is the author of the new book SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor . --- Back in the 1960s, it looked as though the space race might be matched by a race in the opposite direction. As the first...
Huffington Post, February 2, 2012
...Back in the 1960s, it looked as though the space race might be matched by a race in the opposite direction. Read More... More on Travel Blogs...