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

Ujifasa'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.

Books

• A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4516-4507-1.
• Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2018. ISBN 978-1-4767-4597-8.
• The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I. New York: HarperCollins. 2023. ISBN 978-0-06-297189-0.

References

1. "Japanese American Redress: Scenes Behind the Scenes: Grant Ujifusa". Retrieved November 12, 2024.
2. "Ujifusa, Steven". German National Library (in German). Retrieved September 27, 2024.
3. "Athenaeum Literary Award". Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Archived from the original on May 16, 2024. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
4. "The Best Non-Fiction of 2012". Wall Street Journal. December 14, 2012. Archived from the original on September 14, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
5. "Literary Medal". Saint Nicholas Society. Archived from the original on July 18, 2024. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
6. Reviews for A Man and His Ship:
   • Gordon, John Steele (August 17, 2012). "The Anti-Titanic". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Freeman, Jay (June 1, 2012). "A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States". Booklist. Vol. 108, no. 19–20. American Library Association. Retrieved October 3, 2024 – via Gale.
   • "A Man and His Ship". Kirkus Reviews. May 6, 2012. Archived from the original on November 22, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Mercogliano, Salvatore R. (Winter 2012–2013). "Reviews". Sea History. No. 141. p. 53. Retrieved October 4, 2024 – via Issuu.
   • Preul, Don (February 2013). "A Man and His Ship". U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. Vol. 139, no. 2. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Stillwell, Paul (January 2013). "Looking Back - The Last Great American Liner". Naval History. Vol. 27, no. 1. U.S. Naval Institute. Archived from the original on May 19, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • "A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly. May 21, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
7. Reviews of Barons of the Sea:
   • "Barons of the Sea". Kirkus Reviews. April 10, 2018. Archived from the original on May 20, 2024. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
   • "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly. May 7, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Collins, Cary C. (2019). "BARONS OF THE SEA: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper ship". Journal of the West: 85–86.EBSCOhost 144650150
   • Demy, Timothy J. (July 27, 2023). "Steven Ujifusa, Barons of the Sea, and Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by Timothy J. Demy". The Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord. 33 (1): 154–156. doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1119. ISSN 2561-5467.
   • Donoghue, Steve (July 17, 2018). "'Barons of the Sea' chronicles the race to build the perfect clipper ship". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Archived from the original on March 22, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Kj (2018). "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship". Foreign Policy (230): 85. ISSN 0015-7228. JSTOR 26535823.
   • Ewing, James (February 1, 2019). "Pelagic thoroughbreds". The New Criterion. 37 (6): 66–67. EBSCOhost 134368442
   • Steagall, Jason L. (June 2, 2018). "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race To Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship". Library Journal. 143 (10): 113.EBSCOhost 129811255
8. Reviews of The Last Ships from Hamburg:
   • Cole, Diane (November 17, 2023). "Voyage to the Golden Land". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on December 17, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Drent, Jan (June 28, 2024). "Steven Ujifusa, The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Jan Drent". The Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord. 33 (3–4): 580–583. doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1225. ISSN 2561-5467.
   • Nasaw, David (February 12, 2024). "The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration". The New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • "The Last Ships from Hamburg". Kirkus Reviews. September 23, 2023. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly. September 11, 2023. Archived from the original on August 27, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.

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