Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Bradford Matsen

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Port Townsend, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2006
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Bradford Matsen is an American author of Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King; Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2006; The New York Times bestseller Titanic's Last Secrets; Planet Ocean: A Story of Life in the Sea; Dancing to the Fossil Record with artist Ray Troll; the award-winning Incredible Ocean Adventure series for children; and many other books. He was creative producer for the Shape of Life, an eight-hour National Geographic television series on evolutionary biology, and has written on marine science and the environment for Mother Jones, Audubon, Natural History, and many other magazines.

Studios

Heyward

Bradford Matsen worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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