Occupation writer | Movies The Finest Hours | |
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Alma mater Boston College, Saint Michael's College Subject travel, adventure, United States Coast Guard Education Saint Michael's College, Boston College Books The Finest Hours: The True Stor, A Storm Too Soon: A Remark, Fatal Forecast, So Close to Home: A True Stor, Ten Hours Until Dawn Similar Casey Sherman, Paul Tamasy, Scott Silver, Craig Gillespie, Adam Gamble | ||
The finest hours michael j tougias
Michael J. Tougias is a writer who was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts in 1955. He writes about maritime, travel, and adventure topics.
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So close to home michael j tougias
Education
He attended Boston College (1973–74) and graduated from Saint Michael's College in Vermont in 1977.
Personal life
He lives in Massachusetts.
He has a daughter, Kristin, with whom he wrote a memoir entitled The Cringe Chronicles.
Career
An avid fisherman, Tougias became a self-syndicated outdoors writer in 1990. At the time he was also managing a division of a major insurance company. He published the first of 25 books in 1998.
He travels to more than 100 small and large speaking engagements a year to discuss his books and other topics, including "Survival Stories," lessons learned from those who were shipwrecked. Coast Guardsmen and sailors are frequent audiences; Tougias' last six books have been accounts of historic sea rescues by the Coast Guard, often in the Gulf Stream.
His book The Finest Hours: The True Story Behind the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Rescue (2009), co-authored with Casey Sherman, was adapted as a Disney film by the same name, released in 2016.