Adam Skolnick is an American open water swimmer and an award-winning journalist who has written about open water swimmers Antonio Argüelles, Kimberley Chambers, the Deep Enders’ including Jim McConica, Tamie Stewart, John Chung, Theo Schmeeckle, Stacey Warmuth, Thomas Ball and Donald Stafford, and about the SCAR Swim Challenge in the New York Times newspaper.
He also wrote The Forever Swim, an autobiography of Antonio Argüelles, One Breath: Freediving, Death and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits about Nick Mevoli, a free diver, and the bestselling David Goggins memoirs, Can’t Hurt Me and Never Finished.
Skolnick came out with a new book, a novel based on a true story that he covered 20 years ago when there was a tiger prowling in Los Angeles for several weeks.
He describes his novel American Tiger, “The narrative centers on Bell Tern, the nine year old who is the first to see the tiger. Only nobody believes her, not even her father, a local game warden, because Bell Tern has the wildest imagination. It’s an adventure story, a father-daughter story and it’s about what it means to be wild.”
He knows wild. He lives it when swimming in the Pacific Ocean with sharks.
He knows adventure. He writes about it when describing the exploits of marathon swimmers and talks about it on podcasts with Rich Roll.
He lives a fascinating, wild, adventurous life – and has the talent to explain such lifestyles well in riveting prose.
American Tiger, available here.
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