Born on this date in 1963, Kurson is
best known for his bestselling book, Shadow Divers, the true story of
two Americans who discover a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the
coast of New Jersey. Shadow Divers
spent 24 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and was awarded the
American Booksellers Association’s 2005 "Book of the Year Award."
A one-time lawyer with a degree from
Harvard Law School, Kurson said he always thought writing was his real
profession and he first decided to give it a try by working at the Chicago
Sun-Times, where he started as a sports writer and quickly moved up to a
full-time features writing job.
A self-proclaimed “adventure
seeker,” Kurson also wrote one of the best nonfiction pirate books, the 2015
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate
Ship. It is a gripping account of
the for the wreck of the 17th-century pirate ship Golden Fleece and
pirate captain Joseph Bannister.
“Once you discover that real pirates
are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away,” Kurson
said. “I think that pirates represent
every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go
on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done
before or even dreamed of doing." 
“It's never too late in life to have
a genuine adventure.”
“It's never too late in life to have
a genuine adventure.”
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