Michael J. Tougias

Michael J. Tougias
Author Michael J. Tougias
Occupation	writer
Alma mater	Boston College, Saint Michael's College
Subject	travel, adventure, United States Coast Guard
Website
http://www.michaeltougias.com/

Michael J. Tougias is a writer who was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts in 1955. He writes about maritime, travel, and adventure topics.

He attended Boston College (1973–74) and graduated from Saint Michael's College in Vermont in 1977.

He lives in Massachusetts.

He has a daughter, Kristin, with whom he wrote a memoir entitled The Cringe Chronicles.

An avid fisherman, Tougias became a self-syndicated outdoors writer in 1990. At the time he was also managing a division of a major insurance company. He published the first of 25 books in 1998.

He travels to more than 100 small and large speaking engagements a year to discuss his books and other topics, including "Survival Stories," lessons learned from those who were shipwrecked. Coast Guardsmen and sailors are frequent audiences; Tougias' last six books have been accounts of historic sea rescues by the Coast Guard, often in the Gulf Stream.

His book The Finest Hours: The True Story Behind the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Rescue (2009), co-authored with Casey Sherman, was adapted as a Disney film by the same name, released in 2016.