Marc Wortman is the author of The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age; Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power; 1941: Fighting the Shadow War : A Divided America in a World at War; The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power; and The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta.
Marc served as an advisor for Humanus Films' multi-award-winning feature-length documentary, "The Millionaires’ Unit – U.S. Naval Aviators in the First World War," which was inspired by the book. To learn more about the film, go to: www.millionairesunit.org
His honors include the U.S. Military History Group 2023 Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award for the outstanding military history book of the year; the John Lyman Book Award (2022); Sigma Delta Chi and CASE feature writing prizes; National Review Book of the Year Award (2022); a Daily Beast Long Reads selection; The Athletic Best Journalism of the Year selection; New York Times Editor's Choice; and Wall Street Journal Notable Book of the Month.
As a freelance journalist, Marc has written articles on a wide range of subjects for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Time, and many other popular and specialized publications. He held a New York Public Library Research Fellowship and was the University of Texas-Dallas Jalonick Distinguished Lecturer in Aviation History in 2014. The 2022 Naval Submarine League History Seminar, which he keynoted, focused on his biography of Admiral Hyman Rickover. His discovery of a 1918 letter documenting a long-rumored grave robbery of Geronimo's skull by members of Yale's Skull & Bones drew worldwide press coverage. He is a Honorary Plank Owner of the USS HYMAN G. RICKOVER (SSN795).
Marc has taught at Princeton University, Quinnipiac University and other colleges and at a college-level program for inmates at a maximum security prison in New Jersey. He is a fellow at Yale University's Davenport College. He has spoken to audiences around the country and appeared on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN BookTV, History Channel, CuriosityStream and numerous other broadcast and streaming outlets.
Marc was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in the Washington, DC, area. Following college at Brown University, he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. He lives with his family in New Haven, CT.
Marc served as an advisor for Humanus Films' multi-award-winning feature-length documentary, "The Millionaires’ Unit – U.S. Naval Aviators in the First World War," which was inspired by the book. To learn more about the film, go to: www.millionairesunit.org
His honors include the U.S. Military History Group 2023 Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award for the outstanding military history book of the year; the John Lyman Book Award (2022); Sigma Delta Chi and CASE feature writing prizes; National Review Book of the Year Award (2022); a Daily Beast Long Reads selection; The Athletic Best Journalism of the Year selection; New York Times Editor's Choice; and Wall Street Journal Notable Book of the Month.
As a freelance journalist, Marc has written articles on a wide range of subjects for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Time, and many other popular and specialized publications. He held a New York Public Library Research Fellowship and was the University of Texas-Dallas Jalonick Distinguished Lecturer in Aviation History in 2014. The 2022 Naval Submarine League History Seminar, which he keynoted, focused on his biography of Admiral Hyman Rickover. His discovery of a 1918 letter documenting a long-rumored grave robbery of Geronimo's skull by members of Yale's Skull & Bones drew worldwide press coverage. He is a Honorary Plank Owner of the USS HYMAN G. RICKOVER (SSN795).
Marc has taught at Princeton University, Quinnipiac University and other colleges and at a college-level program for inmates at a maximum security prison in New Jersey. He is a fellow at Yale University's Davenport College. He has spoken to audiences around the country and appeared on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN BookTV, History Channel, CuriosityStream and numerous other broadcast and streaming outlets.
Marc was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in the Washington, DC, area. Following college at Brown University, he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. He lives with his family in New Haven, CT.
