Donovan Hohn Biography

On January 10 1992 a freighter en route to Tacoma from Hong Kong encountered a storm in the North Pacific. As the massive ship lurched through three-story waves its cargo toppled overboard. Among the missing items: 28800 plastic bath toys.
Reading through student assignments late one night Donovan Hohn then a high school English teacher at a private school in Manhattan first learned about these missing “rubber duckies.” Over the next decade they would circle the North Pacific washing up on beaches from Washington to Alaska. Donovan began to follow the many stories within the fable-like fate of the lost shipment. His quest drew him far and wide as he met high-risk oceanographic researchers investigated the secretive club of maritime shipping conglomerates explored the underside of Chinese toy manufacturing and charted an enormous swath of marine litter in the North Pacific known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Moby-Duck his bestselling book is a modern adventure yarn about mythic disappearance and an impulsive and surprising hunt for elusive quarry.
Donovan Hohn is a journalist whose work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine The New York Times Magazine Outside and the Best Creative Nonfiction. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. A former senior editor of Harper’s Hohn is now the features editor of GQ. He lives in New York with his wife and sons.

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