Simon Winchester
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Simon Winchester, OBE (born September 28, 1944), is a British author and journalist.
Winchester studied geology at St Catherine's College, Oxford before working in Africa and on offshore oil rigs. He then spent a twenty-year career as a foreign correspondent for The Guardian, winning several awards. He has more recently written for such publications as Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic and book reviews for The New York Times. He lives on a small farm in Massachusetts, as well as in the Western Isles of Scotland.
Before his success in book writing he was notable for being a journalist held captive by the Argentinian forces in the Malvinas or Falkland Islands.
Winchester is said to currently be writing a book about the British biochemist and Chinese science scholar Joseph Needham.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] History and Science
- A Crack in the Edge of the World -- the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded -- the 27 August 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
- The Map that Changed the World -- the work of geologist William Smith
- The Meaning of Everything -- the Oxford English Dictionary
- The Surgeon of Crowthorne, also published as The Professor and the Madman
[edit] Travel
- Korea, A Walk Through the Land of Miracles -- Korea
- The River at the Center of the World -- the Yangtze
- Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire (aka The Sun Never Sets)
- Simon Winchester's Calcutta (a collection of writings about the Indian city, edited with son Rupert)
[edit] Honours
Winchester was awarded the Order of the British Empire for "services to journalism and literature" in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours list of 2006.
[edit] See also
This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.[edit] External links
- Simon Winchester -- From Harper Collins Publishers.
- Powells.com Interview with Simon Winchester.
- Simon Winchester -- From the Contemporary Writers website, British Council Arts.
- Simon Winchester : Annotated Bibliography.
