# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nathaniel-philbrick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:05:29.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nathaniel-philbrick"
name: "Nathaniel Philbrick"
slug: "nathaniel-philbrick"
description: "Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author of history, winner of the National Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, based on what inspired Herman Melville to author Moby-Dick, won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was adapted as a film in 2015."
tagline: "American historian and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nathaniel_Philbrick_HiRes.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-06-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.59
  momentum:             2.82950423216445
  historical:           10.60184666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://nathanielphilbrick.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Nathaniel Philbrick"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Philbrick"
    title: "Nathaniel Philbrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nathaniel Philbrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nathaniel Philbrick"
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    title: "נתניאל פילבריק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nathaniel Philbrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump