Nancy Taylor Robson

Nancy Taylor Robson grew up sailing and building boats with her father. After earning a history degree, she married a tugboat captain and embarked on a life of adventure. One of the first women in the country to earn a US Coast Guard tug operator's license, she worked on coastal tugs in the Atlantic and in the Campeche oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico. Her memoir, Woman in the Wheelhouse, is the inspiring story of those six years.

Her published work – personal essays, features, profiles, maritime reporting and analysis, sailing, boats, travel, garden and more – has appeared in The Washington Post, Yachting, House Beautiful, The Baltimore Sun, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Southern Living, Sailing, and more. Her novel, Course of the Waterman, won the Fred Bonnie award and was lauded by Pulitzer Prize Winner, Richard Ben Cramer, and best-selling novelist, Pat Conroy. Her novel, A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams, A Modern Love Story, takes readers into the life of our second First Lady, a woman before her time.

Robson is a University of Maryland Master Gardener and Bay-Wise certifier. She writes, sails, (occasionally), walks the dog, and cooks for friends and family.