Jonathan M. Bryant

About Jon

Jonathan M. Bryant is a well-known professional historian. He has built a successful career in non-fiction, including essays, articles in anthologies, and two prizewinning books. Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope, published by Liveright/W. W. Norton, won the GHRAC Research Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times book prize in History. How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885 (UNC Press), won the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Committee Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Bryant enjoys historical fiction, thrillers, spy novels, and classic science fiction. He knows fiction is a powerful vessel for telling truth and for communicating nuances of the human condition. His first novella, Blue Nude, was published as part of the collection Lowcountry Crime (Wolf’s Echo Press, 2016) and is now available on Amazon Kindle. Two historically accurate novels, Neutrality Act and Dead Reckoning, were recently in the running for the Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association. Neutrality Act was a finalist and Dead Reckoning won the award.