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Martin Dugard
Born (1961-06-01) June 1, 1961 (age 63)
Maine
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAuthor
Websitehttp://www.martindugard.com

Martin Dugard (born June 1, 1961, in Maine) is an American author living in Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County, California.[citation needed] He and his wife have three sons.[1]

Alongside working a corporate marketing job, Dugard began writing professionally in 1988 for endurance sports magazines such as Competitor and Runner's World. In 1993, after covering the Raid Gauloises adventure race in Madagascar, Dugard left corporate marketing to pursue a full-time writing career. Dugard has done journalistic work, such as covering the Tour de France from 1999 to 2008, he primarily writes narrative non-fiction.[2] Dugard wrote his first work of history in 2000.[citation needed]

Works

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Martin Dugard's works include:

  • The Explorers
  • Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth
  • Into Africa: The dramatic retelling of the Stanley-Livingstone story,[3]
  • The Last Voyage of Columbus.[4]
  • The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846–1848
  • To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking on a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better place)

Co-written with Bill O'Reilly

His 2008 screenplay, A Warrior's Heart, was released as a feature film starring Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene. It was also presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and was released in the United States on 2 December 2011.[citation needed][5]

For a number of years, Dugard wrote a daily blog entitled The Paper Kenyan offering readers a daily riff on history, endurance sports, and travel.[6] He still blogs from time to time, though on a much less frequent basis.

References

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  1. ^ "Martin Dugard". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
  2. ^ "Books by Martin Dugard (Author of Into Africa)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  3. ^ "Exploring minds of Stanley, Livingstone". The Seattle Times. June 15, 2003. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
  4. ^ Kugemann, Monika (June 12, 2005). "'The Last Voyage of Columbus,' by Martin Dugard: How Columbus shipwrecked his career". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
  5. ^ Official website
  6. ^ The Paper Kenyan
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