James Carl Nelson is the author of The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War (St. Martin’s Press, October 2009), a narrative of his grandfather’s infantry company during World War I. The book was chosen by Booklist as an Editor’s Choice for 2009.

     His next book, Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in WWI, will be published in fall of 2012.

     Nelson earned his degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota in 1983 and immediately took a job as a staff writer for The Miami Herald, where he covered the colorful city of Key West, Florida and northwest Dade County.

     He is a member of The Great War Society and The Military Writers Society of America. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and his two sons.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR JAMES CARL NELSON’S THE REMAINS OF COMPANY D

“Not since Flags of Our Fathers—no, make that, Not since Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory—no, make that, Not ever—has an American nonfiction writer reached into history and produced a testament of young men in terrible battle with the stateliness, the mastery of cadence, the truthfulness and the muted heartbreak of James Carl Nelson in The Remains of Company D. I wish I’d had the honor of working on this book with him. But then, he didn’t need me.” —Ron Powers, co-author of Flags of Our Fathers and author of Mark Twain: A Life

"James Carl Nelson has combined previously unpublished first-person accounts, prodigious research, and vivid, you-are-there prose into one of the great books on the subject. This is a Band of Brothers for World War I."

—James Donovan, author of A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—the Last Great Battle of the American West