Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Caputo is the author of eight works of fiction-including Exiles, The Voyage, and Acts of Faith-two memoirs, and four works of nonfiction.
September 1996 found Philip Caputo on Barter Island, a wind-scoured rock in the Beaufort Sea populated by two hundred Inupiat and a handful of whites. As he gazed upon an American flag above the only school for a hundred and fifty miles, he marveled that ...[SEE MORE]