Don Farrell is a historian, educator, and author based on the island of Tinian in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). His writing career began on Guam with the 1981 publication of The Americanization of Guam: 1898-1918, which was followed by The Sacrifice of Guam: 1919-1943 andLiberation of Guam 1944. He moved to Tinian in 1987, publishing the first History of the Northern Mariana Islands in 1991. In 2011, Don published the History of the Mariana Islands to Partition.

Farrell is now completing a Modern History of the Northern Mariana Islands. His book Tinian and The Bomb chronicles the important and often overlooked role Tinian in the Mariana Islands played in the atomic bombing of Japan at the end of World War II. His new book Seabees and Superforts at War: Tinian’s Critical Role in the Ultimate Defeat of Japan, is a companion to Tinian and the Bomb and will be released in February 2024. He has also written numerous magazine and newspaper articles on the history of the Mariana Islands.

Farrell credits his understanding of Marianas history to years of teaching and 35 years of government service on Guam and Tinian. He is also a member of the board of director of the CNMI Humanities Council and the CNMI Historic Preservation Review Board. He is now in the process of publishing his own history of the Manhattan Project on Tinian.