Martin Dugard (author)

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Martin Dugard (born June 1, 1961 in Maine) is an American author living in Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County, California.^{[citation needed]} He and his wife have three sons.^[1]

Dugard began writing professionally in 1988.{Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth} Bored by an unfulfilling corporate marketing job, he began writing articles for endurance sports magazines such as Competitor and Runner's World in the mornings and on weekends.{Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth} In 1993, inspired by a three-week journey to Madagascar to cover the Raid Gauloises adventure race, Dugard left the corporate world to pursue a full-time writing career.{Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth} Although he has returned to journalism from time to time, as when covering the Tour de France from 1999 to 2008, Dugard's primary focus is writing narrative non-fiction.^{[citation needed]} Dugard wrote his first work of history in 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Works[]

Martin Dugard's works include:

• The Explorers ISBN 978-1451677584
• Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth ISBN 978-0071358217
• Into Africa: The dramatic retelling of the Stanley-Livingstone story,^[2] ISBN 978-0553814477
• The Last Voyage of Columbus.^[3] ISBN 978-0316154567
• The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846–1848 ISBN 978-0803228122
• To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking on a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better place) ISBN 978-1609611088

Co-written with Bill O'Reilly

• Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever ISBN 978-0805093070
• Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot ISBN 978-0805096668
• Killing Jesus: A History ISBN 978-0805098549
• Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General ISBN 978-0805096682
• Killing Reagan: A Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency ISBN 978-1627792417
• Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan ISBN 978-1-5098-4147-9
• Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence ISBN 978-1627790642
• Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History ISBN 9781250165541
• Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America ISBN 9781627797047
• Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America ISBN 9781250273659.

His 2008 screenplay, A Warrior's Heart, was released as a feature film starring Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene. It was also presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and was released in the United States on 2 December 2011.^[4][5]

For a number of years, Dugard wrote a daily blog entitled The Paper Kenyan offering readers a daily riff on history, endurance sports, and travel.^{[citation needed]} He still blogs from time to time, though on a much less frequent basis.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

External links[]

• Martin Dugard's blog The Paper Kenyan
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140728213331/http://www.jserra.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=124045&type=u
• https://archive.is/20140120000019/http://jserrablog.com/2011/06/29/coach-of-the-year-martin-dugard-shares/