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Craig Nelson

Photograph by Beth Mickalonis

About The Author

Craig Nelson is the author of Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness and the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, as well as several previous books, including The Age of Radiance (a PEN Award Finalist chosen as one of the year’s best books by NBC News, the American Institute of Physics, Kirkus Reviews, and FlavorWire), The First HeroesThomas Paine (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), and Let’s Get Lost (shortlisted for W.H. Smith’s Book of the Year). His writing has appeared in Vanity FairThe Wall Street JournalSalonNational GeographicThe New England ReviewPopular ScienceReader’s Digest, and a host of other publications.

Books by Craig Nelson