Nagorski, Tom 1962-

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Nagorski, Tom 1962-

PERSONAL:

Born 1962.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, NY. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Hyperion Editorial Department, 77 W. 66th St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023.

CAREER:

Worked variously as a senior producer, foreign editor, and senior broadcast producer forWorld News Tonight, American Broadcasting Companies (ABC), since 1984.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fellowship, Henry Luce Foundation; three Emmy awards, Overseas Press Club Award, and Dupont Award, all for international press coverage with ABC.

WRITINGS:

Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of aWorld War II U-Boat Attack, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Tom Nagorski has worked for ABC News since 1984, primarily as a producer in New York, Moscow, and Berlin. The quality of his work has been honored with three Emmy awards as well as an Overseas Press Club Award, Dupont Award, and a Henry Luce Foundation fellowship. In 2006 Nagorski made his publishing debut with Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War IIU-Boat Attack. The book recounts the humanitarian mission the English initiated to send their children (including the author's great-uncle) to the United States and Canada in order to spare them from the Nazi air bombings of British cities during World War II. The irony in this, however, is that midway across the frigid Atlantic Ocean, the ship was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine, or U-boat. While some lifeboats were eventually picked up, one raft, full of thirty-seven stragglers, was overlooked, and the survivors lasted eight days on their own before they were sighted.

Reviews of Miracles on the Water were mostly positive. In a Worcester, Massachusetts, Telegram & Gazette News review, Norman N. Brown commented that "Nagorski has written more than an account of the sinking of a British merchant ship," calling it "a sensitively told tale of a noble initiative" and "the tragic circumstances that called the plan to be quickly called off." Eric Kohn, in an Entertainment Weeklyreview, noted that the book was written "with probing research and crisp prose." A critic in Publishers Weeklysaid that Nagorski "scores a bull's-eye … with this riveting account."