Martin Dugard

Martin Dugard (born June 1, 1961, in Maine) is an American author living in Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County, California.[citation needed ] He and his wife have three sons.

Alongside working a corporate marketing job, Dugard began writing professionally in 1988 for endurance sports magazines such as Competitor and Runner's World. In 1993, after covering the Raid Gauloises adventure race in Madagascar, Dugard left corporate marketing to pursue a full-time writing career. Dugard has done journalistic work, such as covering the Tour de France from 1999 to 2008, he primarily writes narrative non-fiction. Dugard wrote his first work of history in 2000.[citation needed ]

Martin Dugard's works include:

Co-written with Bill O'Reilly

His 2008 screenplay, A Warrior's Heart, was released as a feature film starring Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene. It was also presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and was released in the United States on 2 December 2011.

For a number of years, Dugard wrote a daily blog entitled The Paper Kenyan offering readers a daily riff on history, endurance sports, and travel. He still blogs from time to time, though on a much less frequent basis.