Philip Short

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For the former Louisiana state senator, see Phil Short.

Philip Short (born 17 April 1945) is a journalist and author.

He was born in Bristol on 17 April 1945. He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduation, he spent from 1967 to 1973 as a freelance journalist, first in Malawi, then in Uganda. He then joined the BBC as a foreign correspondent. He worked there for 25 years. He is the author of several books, among them the biographies of Mao Zedong, Mao: A Life, Pol Pot, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, and François Mitterrand, A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand.

He presented a TV documentary on Mao Zedong entitled "Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed" on the UK Terrestrial station Five in May 2007.

References

Biography, under External Links
Interview about Pol Pot
Video of Short meeting Chinese refugees returning from Vietnam, BBC News video report from August 1978
Booknotes interview with Short on Mao: A Life, April 2, 2000.

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