Michael J. Tougias
Michael J. Tougias | |
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 Author Michael J. Tougias | |
| Occupation | writer |
| Alma mater | Boston College, Saint Michael's College |
| Subject | travel, adventure, United States Coast Guard |
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Michael J. Tougias is a writer who was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts in 1955. He writes about maritime, travel, and adventure topics.
Education
He attended Boston College (1973–74) and graduated from Saint Michael's College in Vermont in 1977.
Personal life
He lives in Massachusetts and Florida.[1]
He has a daughter, Kristin, with whom he wrote a memoir entitled The Cringe Chronicles.[2]
Career
Michael J. Tougias is a N.Y. Times Bestselling author of 25 books.
An avid fisherman, Tougias became a self-syndicated outdoors writer in 1990. At the time he was also managing a division of a major insurance company. He published the first of 25 books in 1998.
He travels to more than 100 small and large speaking engagements a year to discuss his books and other topics, including "Survival Stories," lessons learned from those who were shipwrecked. Coast Guardsmen and sailors are frequent audiences; Tougias' last six books have been accounts of historic sea rescues by the Coast Guard, often in the Gulf Stream.[3]
His book The Finest Hours: The True Story Behind the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Rescue (2009), co-authored with Casey Sherman, was adapted as a Disney film by the same name, released in 2016.[4][5]
Tougias is a frequent guest on NPR programs, The Weather Channel, Fox & Friends, 20/20, and national talk shows.
Selected works
- Tougias, Kristin; Tougias, Michael J. (2014). The Cringe Chronicles: Mortifying Misadventures with My Dad: a Memoir. Black Rose Writing. ISBN 9781612963402. OCLC 887818219.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tougias, Michael J. (2009). Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0743297040.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tougias, Michael J.; Sherman, Casey (2009). Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue. New York: Faber And Faber. ISBN 1250044235.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tougias, Michael J.; O'Leary, Alison (2015). Inns and Adventures : a History and Explorer's Guide : Vermont, New Hampshire, and the Berkshires. On Cape Publications. ISBN 0991340140. OCLC 898911500.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tougias, Michael J. (2002). Outdoors in Franklin. Franklin, Mass: The Town. OCLC 49673887.
- Tougias, Michael J. (2011). Overboard! A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival. Scribner. ISBN 9781439153628.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tougias, Michael J.; Campbell, Douglas (2013). Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy. New York: Scribner. ISBN 1476746648.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tougias, Michael J.; O'Leary, Alison. So Close to Home: The True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II. New York: Pegasus Books. ISBN 1681771306. OCLC 923794441.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tougias, Michael J. (2012). A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredible Rescue. Scribner. ISBN 1451683340.
- Tougias, Michael J.; Quirk Jr., Frank (2005). Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0312334362. OCLC 64390615.
References
- ^ "Michael J. Tougias". Simon & Schuster.
- ^ "Maritime survival writer Michael Tougias plunges into something new". BostonGlobe.com.
- ^ "'Finest Hours' co-author Michael Tougias drawn to stories of survival". The Telegram.
- ^ Disney's The Finest Hours - Trailer 1. 8 July 2015 – via YouTube.
- ^ Eliza Berman. ""The Finest Hours": The True Story Behind the Movie". TIME.com.
