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Steven Ujifusa

Steven Brooks Ujifusa is an American historian and the author of three books on maritime history.

Ujifusa's father Grant was a founding editor of The Almanac of American Politics and prominent participant in the Japanese American redress movement of the 1980s. His mother Amy was a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School of Music.

Ujifusa majored in history as an undergraduate at Harvard University and earned a master's degree in historic preservation and real estate development from the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, ''A Man and His Ship'', won the Literary Prize for Non-Fiction from the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and was named one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2012 by ''The Wall Street Journal''. In 2019, he received the Washington Irving Literary Medal from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. Provided by Wikipedia