Peter Firstbrook is author of The Voyage of the Matthew (about the explorer John Cabot), Lost on Everest (about George Mallory), and The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family. He worked for the BBC for twenty-five years as a television producer, director and executive producer, specializing in historical documentaries. He has won over thirty international awards, including on two occasions the Royal Television Society award for best documentary. He divides his time between London and the Isle of Wight.
'Fascinating, well-told history.' New York Times on Lost on Everest 'A compelling narrative... A contemporary family detective story, with Firstbrook as the guide and eventually the answer man to questions directly related to the Obama family' Christian Science Monitor on The Obamas 'Peter Firstbrook's tenacious research for A Man Most Driven convinces me even more that Smith's life was just as incredibly swashbuckling as Smith himself so colorfully but truthfully described.' William M. Kelso, Director of Research and Interpretation at the Jamestown Rediscovery Project