STEVEN UJIFUSA, the author of A Man and His Ship and Barons of the Sea, received a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard University and a master’s degree in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania, and has given presentations across the country and on the high seas. He is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award. The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I (Harper Perennial) chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the 20th century, and the men who made it possible.