92. Bestselling Author John U. Bacon On The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in maritime history, record-breaking in many ways during its short life, a fact that is now overshadowed by its story. The freighter sank in Lake Superior on November 10th of 1975 while transporting more than 26,000 tons of cargo from the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock in Superior to Zug Island, and remains at the bottom of the great lake today. While the story of its fateful wreck has been immortalized in dozens of songs, books, publications and documentaries throughout history, few have been as triumphant as John U. Bacon’s latest page-turner The Gales Of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Released in October of 2025, one month prior to the fiftieth anniversary of the tragic event, the book sheds new light on the tragedy, spanning nearly five-hundred pages and featuring more than 100 interviews from friends, family members and even former crewmen of those lost aboard the ship. The book lays out an eye-opening, definitive account of the shipwreck while simultaneously humanizing those who died, memorializing them across its hundreds of pages while letting readers in on one of the most mourned maritime disasters of our time. This is the SS Edmund Fitzgerald like never before, featuring bestselling author John U. Bacon.