George Michelsen Foy

George Michelsen Foy's latest non-fiction book, Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, A Brave Crew, And the Wreck of the SS EL Faro, (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, May 2018) finds drama in the tiniest details of ship and crew to solve the mysterious disappearance in 2015 of a giant American freighter and her 33 crewmembers in the worst American shipping disaster since WWII. His previous non-fiction work, Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human (Flatiron Books/Macmillan, 2016) sought to understand how life finds its way around, from cells to emotions to spaceships, and why new technologies such as GPS imperil not only our navigational faculties but our bodies and identities too. At the same time he sought to find out why and how his great-great-grandfather, the captain of a Norwegian sailing ship, perished after his vessel got lost in a snowstorm. ... Foy's earlier book, Zero Decibels: The quest for absolute silence (Scribner, 2010), attempted to discover whether true silence exists, and if so, where to find it—a quest that continues in the author's own life and work. Foy has written for numerous publications including Harper's, Men's Journal, and Rolling Stone, on subjects that range from the funeral industry, to Bollywood, to modern seagoing pirates. He has published twelve novels and is working on another as well as on a third non-fiction book. He teaches creative writing at NYU, and lives in coastal Massachusetts and New York City. You can read more about him on his website, www.georgefoy.com