Marc Wortman, PhD, is a multi-award-winning independent historian and freelance journalist. He is the author of five books on American military, technology, business and social history, most recently The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age. The U.S. Military History Group named his previous book, Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power (Yale University Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award as the outstanding military history book of the year. The book was also selected a National Review (online) Book of the Year and received an honorable mention for the John Lyman Award in biography from the North American Society for Oceanic History.

His other books are 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, A Divided America in a World at War (Atlantic Monthly, 2016); The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta (PublicAffairs, 2009), and The Millionaires’ Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power (PublicAffairs, 2006), basis for a multi-award-winning documentary.

Marc has written for many publications, including Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, and Time. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN BookTV, History Channel, CuriosityStream and other outlets and spoken to audiences throughout the country. He produced the exhibit on Admiral Hyman Rickover now on display at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Conn.

Following college at Brown University, he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. He lives with his family in New Haven.