Benerson Little

Born in Key West, Florida, Benerson Little grew up variously on all three U.S. coasts. Following his graduation from Tulane University, he served for eight years as a Naval officer. Upon completion of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training in 1983 (BUDS Class 121), he served with SEAL Team THREE and SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team ONE. After resigning his commission in 1989, he worked variously as a military and special operations analyst, business intelligence analyst, writer, and consultant. He now lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his two daughters, and in his spare time he teaches fencing at the Huntsville Fencing Club.

Pirate Hunting (forthcoming 2009) was inspired by the need to look at piracy and other forms of sea roving from their earliest record to the present, and in particular at the measures taken to counter them. Besides being an opportunity to look at six millennia of maritime history, the subject has practical appeal today, given the increase in international piracy.

The Buccaneer's Realm was born of an interest in the role of the buccaneer, filibuster, and Spanish pirate in the development of the New World, as well as how these sea rovers influenced and were influenced by the variety of cultures and physical environments of a frontier comprising one third of the entire world.

The Sea Rover’s Practice was born of a lifelong interest in pirates and privateers, an interest originally inspired by the sea, by the fiction of Stevenson, Sabatini, and Steinbeck, by the illustrations of Pyle and Wyeth, and by the journals of Exquemelin, Dampier, and Rogers. Originally researched both for personal interest and to support the writing of historical fiction, the author soon turned the material into a book to fill a void in the literature of the sea.