Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 200
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Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-1-4930-4354-5 • Hardback • August 2019 • $19.00 • (£17.95)
978-1-4930-4355-2 • eBook • August 2019 • $18.00 • (£13.95)
Daniel J. Boyne is the author of Kelly: A Father, A Son, An American Quest (Mystic Seaport/Lyons); The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water (Hyperion/Lyons); and Essential Sculling (Lyons). In 2008, he was awarded first prize in the category of biography in the Premier Book Awards (Kelly), and The Red Rose Crew earned a starred Kirkus Review and became a Boston Globe bestseller in 2001. His essays have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic, Harvard Magazine, and Gray’s Sporting Journal. He is a frequent contributor to the internationally acclaimed rowing website, row2k.com. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Red Rose Crew earned a starred Kirkus Review and became a Boston Globe bestseller in 2001.
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In 2008, Dan was awarded first prize in the category of biography in the Premier Book Awards for Kelly.
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Motion picture rights in The Red Rose Crew have been sold, and the script is now being written. —
The Seven Seat is a must have for your rowing library. Dan Boyne beautifully captures the thrill of being the ‘newbie' - new to college, (an elite college, no less), new to taking the top bunk in a small dorm room, new to competitive rowing. In this work of ‘creative non-fiction,’ Dan describes college rowing, ’70’s style: leaden boats, wooden oars, cotton t-shirts, and no Concept II ergs. Score one! But that’s just the beginning. Read on. You’ll be glad you did.— Brad Alan Lewis, Olympic Gold Medalist in rowing and author of Assault on Lake Casitas
With Dan Boyne’s books The Red Rose Crew and Kelly: A Father, A Son, An American Quest, he proved to be an author who knows how to tell good rowing stories. Now, Boyne is back with a new rowing tale, The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge, a work that he himself calls “creative non-fiction,” in which he takes a more active role as both a narrator and a character. Boyne shows in this wonderful “saga” that he is a master of portraying American rowing history—whether it’s about a famous women’s crew, an American rowing legend, or rowing at Trinity College, Hartford, in the 1970s.— Göran R. Buckhorn, editor of Mystic Seaport Museum Magazine and founder and editor of Hear The Boat Sing