Career
His first book, Ocean"s End: Travels Through Endangered Seas, appeared in 2000. He is State & National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. Woodard was also a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in both 2013 and 2014.
In 2014, the Washington Post named him one of the "Best State Capitol Reporters in America" and the Maine Press Association chose him as Journalist of the Year.
His third book, the New York Times bestseller The Republic of Pirates, is the basis of the 2014 National Broadcasting Company drama Crossbones, written by Neil Cross and starring John Malkovich. Woodard was also a historical consultant for Assassin"s Creed IV: Black Flag, which was also set in the time period covered in Republic of Pirates.
He is a long-time foreign correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and seven continents, from postings in Budapest, Hungary. Zagreb, Croatia; Washington, District of Columbia And the United States–Mexico border.
His work has appeared in dozens of publications including The Economist, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Bloomberg View, The Guardian, Politico Magazine, Washington Monthly, and Down East, where he was a contributing editors
A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he lives in midcoast Maine.
