Louis Arthur Norton

Louis Arthur Norton, a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, has published extensively on maritime history topics that include Joshua Barney: Hero of the Revolutionary War and Captains Contentious: The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine. Two of his articles were awarded the 2002 and 2006 and Gerald E. Morris Prize for maritime historiography in the Mystic Seaport Museum’s LOG. Dr. Norton received the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association’s 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 awards for fiction and essay writing respectively.