Nathaniel Philbrick and his family live in Nantucket, the island off the coast of Massachusetts from which the fictional whaleship in "Moby-Dick" set sail and which has been at the center of many of his books, including "In the Heart of the Sea," one...
NEA Big Read author Jeff VanderMeer spent his early years in the Fiji Islands where his father, an entomologist and research chemist, went to study rhinoceros beetles until he turned his attention to fire ants and moved the family to Gainesville, Flo...