Award winner toured campus, met with students hoping to follow in his footsteps
Mark Kurlansky ’66, an award-winning author of more than 40 books, stopped by Cheshire Academy February 19, visiting several classes and signing books before an evening author talk at Barnes & Noble Cheshire.
Kurlansky met with aspiring writers in the Writing Center and addressed classes in both history and IB Theory of Knowledge, where he discussed elements of his book 1968: The Year That Rocked the World. His visit was part of Alumni in the Classroom, an Advancement Office series that kicked off in January with a visit from Bellamy Forrest ’94, a sought-after first assistant director on top TV shows like Pluribus and The Four Seasons.
Known for his works in both fiction and nonfiction, Kurlansky is the author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, an international bestseller translated into more than 15 languages. His many other works include The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (2025), Cheesecake: A Novel (2025), and Salt: A World History (2002). Kurlansky is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The New York Public Library Best Books of the Year Award, a James Beard Foundation Award, and the National Outdoor Book Award, among many other honors. In 2006, he was named the Bon Appétit Food Writer of the Year.
To learn more about the Alumni in the Classroom program, contact Robert “Chip” Boyd P’98,’10, alumni engagement associate, at chip.boyd@cheshireacademy.org.
