Steven Brooks Ujifusa is an American historian and the author of three books on maritime history.
Ujifusa majored in history as an undergraduate at Harvard University and earned a master's degree in historic preservation and real estate development from the University of Pennsylvania.[1] His first book, A Man and His Ship, won the Literary Prize for Non-Fiction from the Athenaeum of Philadelphia[2] and was named one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2012 by The Wall Street Journal.[3] In 2019, he received the Washington Irving Literary Medal from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York.[4]