William W. Warner (April 2, 1920 – April 18, 2008)
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and writer. He was awarded the 1977

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for General Nonfiction for his first book '' Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay'', which was based on his experiences living and working among crab fishermen on the

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. Warner was a 1943 graduate of

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. During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a

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air group.

Works

* '' Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay'' (1976) * ''Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman'' (1983) * ''Into the Porcupine Cave and Other Odysseys: Adventures of an Occasional Naturalist'' (1999, short stories) * ''At Peace with All Their Neighbors: Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787–1860'' (1994)

References

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