Charles P. Wohlforth (born 1963) is an author and journalist, former public official, and consultant.^[1] He has written extensively about Alaska and has collaborated with other authors on a variety of topics.^[2]

Wohlforth's books include The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, in the Science and Technology category, in 2004,^[3] and more than 10 other books about science, environment, medicine, history, biography, and travel. His column in the Anchorage Daily News won the "Best of the West" award in 2019.^[4] Wohlforth served two terms on the Anchorage Assembly^[5][6] and led the Coalition for Education Equity as executive director for five years.^[7] He was a consultant on energy and transportation issues on the state and national level.^[7] He was host of several radio, podcast and TV programs on Alaska Public Media.^[8] He graduated from Princeton University with high honors in 1986.^[7]

Partial bibliography

• How Covid Crashed the System: A Guide to Fixing American Health Care (By David B. Nash and Charles Wohlforth; Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)^[9]
• Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets] (By Charles Wohlforth and Amanda Hendrix; Pantheon/Knopf, 2016).^[10]
• From the Shores of Ship Creek: Stories of Anchorage’s First 100 Years (Todd Communications, 2015).^[11]
• To Russia With Love: An Alaskan’s Journey (By Vic Fischer with Charles Wohlforth; University of Alaska Press, 2012).^[12]
• The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010).^[13]
• Saving for the Future: My Life and the Permanent Fund (By Dave Rose as told to Charles Wohlforth; Epicenter Press, 2008).^[14]
• The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004).^[15]
• Frommer's Alaska (Wiley, 1996–2011). Fourteen editions
• Alaska For Dummies (Wiley, 2003–2011). Five editions
• Frommer's Family Vacations in the National Parks (Wiley, 1999–2004). Three editions
• Crisis in the Commons: The Alaska Solution (By Walter J. Hickel; Institute for Contemporary Studies, 2002).
• Spectacular Alaska (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1998; revised edition, Universe, 2012).