in 1975. He wrote more than a dozen books about maritime history. His study of the clipper ship era, The Challenge, won Honorable Mention as a John Lyman Book Award. Whipple taught at the Harvard-Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course, and was a member of the editorial board of the Harper's Dictionary of Contemporary English Usage. Selected list of worksYankee Whalers in the South Seas (1954)Pirate: Rascals of the Spanish Main (1957)Tall Ships and Great Captains; a Narrative of Famous Sailing Ships Through the Ages and the Courageous Men Who Sailed, Fought, or Raced Them Across the Seas (1960)Hero of Trafalgar: The Story of Lord Nelson (1963)The Fatal Gift of Beauty; the Final Years of Byron and Shelley (1964)All About Nelson (1966)The Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd (1970)Fighting Sail (The Seafarers Series - Time Life Books)(1978)Vintage Nantucket (1978)The Whalers (The Seafarers Series - Time Life Books) (1978)The Whalers (1979)The Racing Yachts (The Seafarers Series - Time Life Books) (1980)The Clipper Ships (1980)The Mediterranean (1981)Storm (Planet Earth Series - Time Life Books) (1982)World War II in the Mediterranean - (Time Life Books) (1982)Restless Ocean (Planet Earth Series - Time Life Books) (1983)The Challenge (1987)To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines (1991)Critters: Adventures in Wildest Suburbia'' (1994) References American book editors American naval historians American male non-fiction writers American maritime historians Harvard University alumni Yale University alumni Writers from Greenwich, Connecticut 1918 births 2013 deaths Loomis Chaffee School alumni Historians from Connecticut