Ric Murphy’s award winning book, Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN: First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier, was honored by the 2018 Indie Book Awards Committee as the FINALIST in the category for African America History, at the Awards Ceremony at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans on June 22, 2018. For authors and publishers the Indie Book Awards is the largest nonprofit organization known as ‘Sundance’ of of the book publishing world.