About This Event
Jack E. Davis, Professor at University of Florida, is Artist Boat's Float the Boat Honoree. Dr. Davis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and a Distinguished Professor of History and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. After earning a PhD in history from Brandeis University in 1994, he taught at Eckerd College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and at the University of Jodan in Amman as a Fulbright scholar before moving to UF in 2003. In 2024, The Florida House on Capitol Hill chose him as Florida’s distinguished writer of the year.
Published by Liveright/W.W. Norton, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times Book Review described The Gulf as a “beautiful homage to a neglected sea.” The Gulf was a New York TimesNotable Book for 2017 and made several “best of” lists for the year, including those of the Washington Post, NPR, Forbes, and the Tampa Bay Times. In 2019, Davis was the recipient of an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, awarded to support the writing of The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird. Published in 2022, The Bald Eaglewas chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, a Los Angeles Times top-five nonfiction book of 2022, and an Amazon and Apple best book of 2022.
Jack E. Davis is the author or editor of ten books, including the award-winning An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, Davis has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Tampa Bay Times, Orion, Saturday Evening Post, Sierra, Audubon, and Smithsonian.
JOIN US for a book signing and lecture on Thursday, November 13 from 6pm-8pm at the Rosenberg Library. Dr. Davis will be sharing the importance of the Galveston ecosystem, his life growing up on the water, and how it influenced his writing and career. You can register for the event (free to attend) and purchase a book today, and 50% of the proceeds will benefit The Preserve. All of Jack Davis’ books may be brought to the event for him to sign. Purchased books may be picked up in advance at Artist Boat Headquarters after October 1st or at the lecture on November 13th.
Only 100 seats available.
Artist Boat HQ is located at 13330 Settegast Rd in Galveston.
About This Event
Jack E. Davis, Professor at University of Florida, is Artist Boat's Float the Boat Honoree. Dr. Davis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and a Distinguished Professor of History and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. After earning a PhD in history from Brandeis University in 1994, he taught at Eckerd College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and at the University of Jodan in Amman as a Fulbright scholar before moving to UF in 2003. In 2024, The Florida House on Capitol Hill chose him as Florida’s distinguished writer of the year.
Published by Liveright/W.W. Norton, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times Book Review described The Gulf as a “beautiful homage to a neglected sea.” The Gulf was a New York TimesNotable Book for 2017 and made several “best of” lists for the year, including those of the Washington Post, NPR, Forbes, and the Tampa Bay Times. In 2019, Davis was the recipient of an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, awarded to support the writing of The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird. Published in 2022, The Bald Eaglewas chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, a Los Angeles Times top-five nonfiction book of 2022, and an Amazon and Apple best book of 2022.
Jack E. Davis is the author or editor of ten books, including the award-winning An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, Davis has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Tampa Bay Times, Orion, Saturday Evening Post, Sierra, Audubon, and Smithsonian.
JOIN US for a book signing and lecture on Thursday, November 13 from 6pm-8pm at the Rosenberg Library. Dr. Davis will be sharing the importance of the Galveston ecosystem, his life growing up on the water, and how it influenced his writing and career. You can register for the event (free to attend) and purchase a book today, and 50% of the proceeds will benefit The Preserve. All of Jack Davis’ books may be brought to the event for him to sign. Purchased books may be picked up in advance at Artist Boat Headquarters after October 1st or at the lecture on November 13th.
Only 100 seats available.
Artist Boat HQ is located at 13330 Settegast Rd in Galveston.