W. Jeffrey Bolster

W. Jeffrey Bolster is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire in the United States, and the author of The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail,^[1] which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas,^[2] and the 2013 Albert J. Beveridge Award. He also wrote Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail^[3] which won the 1997 Wesley Logan Prize of the American Historical Association.