Richard Adams Carey

Richard Adams Carey (born October 18, 1951) is an American writer best known for Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman (ISBN 978-0-618-05698-9), a nonfiction chronicle of the 1995-96 fishing season in the lives of four Cape Cod commercial fishermen.

The New York Times called Against the Tide "deep ecological journalism at its best, an effective and compassionate chronicle of a threatened way of life, and a worthy successor to such classic portraits of American fishermen as William W. Warner's Beautiful Swimmers and Peter Matthiessen's Men's Lives".

[3] Honored as a 1992 New York Public Library "Book to Remember", this chronicled a summer spent living, hunting, and fishing in Kongiganak and Bethel, Alaska, with a Yup'ik family.

[9] Carey has also published short fiction, most recently in Hunger Mountain, the VCFA Journal of the Arts: "Our Own Version of Iowa"[10] and "Ruby Thursday".

[11] His fourth book of nonfiction, In the Evil Day: Violence Comes to One Small Town, describes a 1997 shooting rampage by Carl Drega in Colebrook, New Hampshire.