| Christopher Potter | |
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| Born | 1 April 1959 Warrington (formerly Lancashire, now Cheshire) |
| Occupation | Writer, former publisher, editor |
| Nationality | British |
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Christopher Potter is the former Publisher and Managing Director of Fourth Estate. He has a BSC in mathematics from King's College London and an MSc in the History and Philosophy of Science. He has written for The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Standard. He divides his time between London and New York. You Are Here, A Portable History of the Universe is his first book.
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Born 1 April 1959. Christopher Potter spent almost a quarter of a century in publishing, over 17 of those years at independent publishing house Fourth Estate. The company was celebrated for discovering so-called "sleepers" and transforming them into bestsellers. Potter became Publisher and Managing Director. As an editor he worked closely with many writers, including Carol Shields, Annie Proulx, Michael Cunningham, and Michael Chabon (all of whom won the Pulitzer prize for novels published by 4th Estate), Dava Sobel (whose non-fiction book Longitude was a number 1 best-seller for over a year and sold over a million copies), Hilary Mantel, Matt Ridley, Simon Singh and Marcus Du Sautoy.
Potter made his début as a writer in March 2009 when his popular science book You Are Here was published by Hutchinson (Random House). You Are Here is published in America by HarperCollins.
You Are Here is "a thrilling intellectual adventure" exploring the universe through the concepts of scale and time, and through the history of scientific ideas: from the Big Bang to the evolution of life, and from the Ancient Greeks to Stephen Hawking, You Are Here received universal acclaim, with reviews across all the major national papers. 'One of the best popular science books I have ever read' wrote Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian,[1] and 'One of the most entertaining and thoughtful pop-science books to be published for years.' said the Sunday Times.[2]