He was awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his first book Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay, which was based on his experiences living and working among crab fishermen on the Chesapeake.
Warner was a 1943 graduate of Princeton University.
[2] During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a Marine air group.
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