Lawrence Millman

Lawrence Millman

Lawrence Millman is an adventure travel writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He is the author of eleven books, including "Our Like Will Not Be There Again", "Northern Latitudes", "Last Places", "An Evening Among Headhunters", "A Kayak Full of Ghosts", and "Lost in the Arctic". His work has also appeared in "Smithsonian", "National Geographic Adventure", the "Atlantic Monthly", "Sports Illustrated", and "Islands". He has won numerous awards, including a Northern Lights Award, a Lowell Thomas Award, an award for the best article on Canada in a U.K. publication (1996), and a Pacific- Asia Gold Travel Award; he has been anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing (Houghton Mifflin) three years in a row.

Millman holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Rutgers University. A fellow of the prestigious Explorers Club, he has made over 30 trips to the Arctic and Subarctic. He has discovered a previously unknown lake in Borneo, and there is a mountain named after him outside Angmagssalik in eastern Greenland.

External links

* [http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/events/youngauthors/bios/lawrence_bio.html Bio from the Yukon Young Writers Conference]
* [http://www.rolfpotts.com/writers/index.php?writer=Lawrence+Millman Interview with Lawrence Millman]


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