Clinton Trowbridge

Born in New York City, Clinton Trowbridge is a retired professor and author of five books: The Crow Island Journal, The Man Who Walked Around the World (with David Kunst), Into the Remote Places (with Ian Hibell), The Boat That Wouldn't Sink, and Grotties Don't Kiss.

Trowbridge's personal essays and articles have also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Harper's, The Readers Digest, The Maine Times, and many other newspapers and magazines. He has published over 80 essays. Most of his work is autobiographical and inspired variously by pleasure, pain, embarrassment, and an appetite for misadventure. He is a singer, sailor, and an armchair adventurer. He resides in Maine, with his wife Elaine.

After attending Groton School, Trowbridge graduated from Princeton University and received his MA and PhD in English Literature from the University of Florida. He taught English Literature and Creative Writing at Rollins College in Orlando, FL, the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, and spent 18 years teaching at Dowling College in Dowling, NY on Long Island. Influenced by his relationship with Andrew Liddell, who was the editor of the Sewanee Review for many years, Trowbridge's scholarly articles focused on New Criticism, with analyses of J.D. Salinger, Flannery O'Conner, Arther Miller, and Saul Bellow.