Steven Ujifusa

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.{{cite web| title=Japanese American Redress: Scenes Behind the Scenes: Grant Ujifusa| url=https://grantujifusa.com/grant-ujifusa/| access-date=2024-11-12}}

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.{{cite web |title=Ujifusa, Steven |url=https://d-nb.info/gnd/1319037399 |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=German National Library |publisher= |language=de}} His first book, A Man and His Ship, won the Literary Prize for Non-Fiction from the Athenaeum of Philadelphia{{Cite web |title=Athenaeum Literary Award |url=https://web3.philaathenaeum.org/literary.html |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Athenaeum of Philadelphia |archive-date=May 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516050629/http://web3.philaathenaeum.org/literary.html |url-status=live }} and was named one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2012 by The Wall Street Journal.{{Cite news |date=December 14, 2012 |title=The Best Non-Fiction of 2012 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324481204578179532266739440 |access-date=2024-10-03 |work=Wall Street Journal |archive-date=September 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230914195936/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324481204578179532266739440 |url-status=live }} In 2019, he received the Washington Irving Literary Medal from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York.{{Cite web |title=Literary Medal |url=https://saintnicholassociety.org/awards/literary-medal/ |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Saint Nicholas Society |language=en-US |archive-date=July 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718114744/https://saintnicholassociety.org/awards/literary-medal/ |url-status=live }}

Books

{{Cite book |title=A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States |date=2012 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1-4516-4507-1 |edition= |location=New York}}Reviews for A Man and His Ship:
{{Cite web |last=Gordon |first=John Steele |date=2012-08-17 |title=The Anti-Titanic |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443991704577579623942024142 |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=The Wall Street Journal }}
{{Cite magazine |last=Freeman |first=Jay |date=2012-06-01 |title=A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA294894864&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00067385&p=LitRC&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E4af22303&aty=open-web-entry |access-date=2024-10-03 |magazine=Booklist |publisher=American Library Association |via=Gale |volume=108 |issue=19–20 }}
{{Cite web |date=2012-05-06 |title=A Man and His Ship |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/steven-ujifusa/man-his-ship/ |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=November 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122071431/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/steven-ujifusa/man-his-ship/ |url-status=live }}
{{Cite magazine |last=Mercogliano |first=Salvatore R. |date=Winter 2012–2013 |title=Reviews |url=https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_141_winter-2012-13?e=32688319/58661518 |access-date=2024-10-04 |magazine=Sea History |page=53 |via=Issuu |issue=141 }}
{{Cite magazine |last=Preul |first=Don |date=February 2013 |title=A Man and His Ship |url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2013/february/book-reviews |access-date=2024-10-03 |magazine=U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings |volume=139 |issue=2 }}
{{Cite magazine |last=Stillwell |first=Paul |date=January 2013 |title=Looking Back - The Last Great American Liner |url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2013/january/looking-back-last-great-american-liner |access-date=2024-10-03 |magazine=Naval History |publisher=U.S. Naval Institute |volume=27 |issue=1 |archive-date=May 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519020206/https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2013/january/looking-back-last-great-american-liner |url-status=live }}
{{Cite web |date=2012-05-21 |title=A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States by Steven Ujifusa |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781451645071 |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304174645/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781451645071 |url-status=live }}
{{Cite book |title=Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship |date=2018 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1-4767-4597-8 |edition= |location=New York}}Reviews of Barons of the Sea:
{{Cite web |date=2018-04-10 |title=Barons of the Sea |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/steven-ujifusa/barons-of-the-sea/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=May 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520190310/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/steven-ujifusa/barons-of-the-sea/ |url-status=live }}
{{Cite web |date=2018-05-07 |title=Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by Steven Ujifusa |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781476745978 |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Publishers Weekly }}
{{Cite journal |last=Collins |first=Cary C. |date=2019 |title=BARONS OF THE SEA: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper ship. |journal=Journal of the West |pages=85–86 |via=}}{{EBSCOhost|144650150|dbcode=31h}}
{{Cite journal |last=Demy |first=Timothy J. |date=2023-07-27 |title=Steven Ujifusa, Barons of the Sea, and Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by Timothy J. Demy |url=https://tnm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/default/article/view/1119 |journal=The Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=154–156 |doi=10.25071/2561-5467.1119 |issn=2561-5467 }}
{{Cite news |last=Donoghue |first=Steve |date=2018-07-17 |title='Barons of the Sea' chronicles the race to build the perfect clipper ship |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2018/0717/Barons-of-the-Sea-chronicles-the-race-to-build-the-perfect-clipper-ship |access-date=2024-10-03 |work=Christian Science Monitor |issn=0882-7729 |archive-date=March 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322163040/https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2018/0717/Barons-of-the-Sea-chronicles-the-race-to-build-the-perfect-clipper-ship |url-status=live }}
{{Cite journal |last=Kj |date=2018 |title=Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26535823 |journal=Foreign Policy |issue=230 |pages=85 |jstor=26535823 |issn=0015-7228 }}
{{Cite journal |last=Ewing |first=James |date=2019-02-01 |title=Pelagic thoroughbreds |journal=The New Criterion |volume=37 |issue=6 |pages=66–67}} {{EBSCOhost|134368442|dbcode=lkh}}
{{Cite journal |last=Steagall |first=Jason L. |date=2018-06-02 |title=Barons of the Sea: And Their Race To Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship |url= |journal=Library Journal |volume=143 |issue=10 |pages=113 |via=}}{{EBSCOhost|129811255}}
{{Cite book |last= |first= |title=The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I |date=2023 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-297189-0 |edition= |location=New York}}Reviews of The Last Ships from Hamburg:
{{Cite web |last=Cole |first=Diane |date=2023-11-17 |title=Voyage to the Golden Land |url=https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-ships-from-hamburg-review-voyage-to-the-golden-land-c637f449 |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=The Wall Street Journal |archive-date=December 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231217014404/https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-ships-from-hamburg-review-voyage-to-the-golden-land-c637f449 |url-status=live }}
{{Cite journal |last=Drent |first=Jan |date=2024-06-28 |title=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 |url=https://tnm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/default/article/view/1225 |journal=The Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord |volume=33 |issue=3–4 |pages=580–583 |doi=10.25071/2561-5467.1225 |issn=2561-5467 }}
{{Cite web |last=Nasaw |first=David |date=2024-02-12 |title=The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/books/review/brought-forth-on-this-continent-harold-holzer-the-last-ships-from-hamburg-steven-ujifusa.html |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=The New York Times }}
{{Cite web |date=2023-09-23 |title=The Last Ships from Hamburg |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/steven-ujifusa/the-last-ships-from-hamburg/ |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=December 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223073200/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/steven-ujifusa/the-last-ships-from-hamburg/ |url-status=live }}
{{Cite web |date=2023-09-11 |title=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 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062971876 |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=August 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827130739/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062971876 |url-status=live }}

References

External links

[https://www.stevenujifusa.com/ Home page]

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Living people

Category:American maritime historians

Category:Harvard College alumni

Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni

Category:American writers of Japanese descent