Dewey Lambdin


Dewey Lambdin is an American nautical historical novelist. He is best known for his Alan Lewrie naval adventure series, spanning the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Besides the Alan Lewrie series, he is also the author of What Lies Buried: a novel of Old Cape Fear.
The son of a U.S. Navy officer, Lambdin attended the University of Tennessee where he had his first published story appear in the Thorn Vault, Lambdin graduated with a degree in Film & TV Production from Montana State University in 1969. After graduating he moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he worked as a producer/director production manager and senior director/writer/ producer for local television stations, and later in Nashville in advertising..
After being laid off when the advertising company he worked for failed, he returned to his early interest in writing fiction with his creation of Lewrie in The King's Coat in 1988, published in 1989.

Alan Lewrie books

  1. The King's Coat
  2. The French Admiral
  3. The King's Commission
  4. The King's Privateer
  5. The Gun Ketch
  6. H.M.S. Cockerel
  7. A King's Commander
  8. Jester's Fortune
  9. King's Captain
  10. Sea of Grey
  11. Havoc's Sword
  12. The Captain's Vengeance
  13. A King's Trade
  14. Troubled Waters
  15. The Baltic Gambit
  16. King, Ship and Sword
  17. The Invasion Year
  18. Reefs and Shoals
  19. Hostile Shores
  20. The King's Marauder
  21. Kings and Emperors
  22. A Hard, Cruel Shore
  23. A Fine Retribution
  24. An Onshore Storm
  25. Much Ado About Lewrie