Jimmy Buffett departs on a cruise that inspires A Pirate Looks at Fifty
One of only a handful of writers to top both the fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett departs with his family on a three-week cruise around the Southern Hemisphere that will inspire his book A Pirate Looks at Fifty (1998).After achieving great popularity as a musician Buffett released his first book Tales from Margaritaville in 1996.The book spent six months on the bestseller list.His next book Where Is Joe Merchant about a seaplane pilot investigating the disappearance of a rock star in the Caribbean topped the fiction lists.
When he realized his book contract called for another book but not specifically a novel he turned to nonfiction and began a memoir about the cruise interspersed with memories about his Catholic upbringing and his adventures as a singer.The book hit No.1 putting him in the company of Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck William Styron Irving Wallace and Dr.
Seuss as a writer topping both the fiction and the nonfiction lists.
