Des Ekin

Des Ekin is an historian and journalist. Former Deputy Editor of the Belfast Sunday News, he worked as a journalist, columnist, and finally Political Correspondent for The Sunday World (Ireland’s second biggest newspaper) until 2012. Twice shortlisted for the Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year (The Stolen Village, 2006; The Last Armada, 2014), he is the author of five books. Stateside, his writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, and the Dallas Morning News, among others. This is his first project of wholly American history.