American journalist and author — author of Shadow Divers, Crashing Through, and Pirate Hunters — who writes obsessive-quest narrative nonfiction.
Creates the obsessive amateur quest narrative — Kurson's method (finding amateurs obsessively pursuing extraordinary historical discoveries at great personal risk) produced Shadow Divers, the model for the amateur discovery genre.
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