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( R e d i r e c t e d f r o m W i n c h e s t e r , S i m o n )
British journalist and popular historian
Simon Winchester
Winchester in 2013
Born (1944-09-28 ) 28 September 1944 (age 79 ) London, EnglandOccupation Journalist, author Education University of Oxford Spouse Catherine Evans (div.) Setsuko Winchester simonwinchester .com
Simon Winchester OBE (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal . Winchester has written or contributed to over 30 nonfiction books, has written one novel, and has contributed to several magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler , Smithsonian Magazine , and National Geographic .
Early life and education [ edit ]
Born in London, Winchester attended several boarding schools in Dorset, including Hardye's School .[1] [2] He spent a year hitchhiking around the United States,[3] then in 1963 went up to St Catherine's College, Oxford , to study geology . He graduated in 1966, and found work with Falconbridge of Africa , a Canadian mining company. His first assignment was to work as a field geologist searching for copper deposits in Uganda .[4]
While on assignment in Uganda, Winchester happened upon a copy of James Morris ' Coronation Everest , an account of the 1953 expedition that led to the first successful ascent of Mount Everest .[5] The book instilled in Winchester the desire to be a writer, so he wrote to Morris, seeking career advice. Morris urged Winchester to give up geology the very day he received the letter, and get a job as a writer on a newspaper.[6]
In 1969 Winchester joined The Guardian , first as a regional correspondent based in Newcastle upon Tyne , but later as its Northern Ireland correspondent.[2] Winchester's time in Northern Ireland placed him around several events of The Troubles , including the events of Bloody Sunday and the Belfast "Hour of Terror ".[7] [8] In 1971, Winchester became involved in a controversy over the British press's coverage of Northern Ireland on the floor of the House of Commons when Bernadette Devlin described his role in reporting the shooting to death by British soldiers of Barney Watt in Hooker Street in the morning of Saturday, 6 February 1971.[9] [10] [11]
After leaving Northern Ireland in 1972, Winchester was briefly assigned to Calcutta before becoming correspondent for The Guardian in Washington, DC, where he covered news ranging from the end of Richard Nixon 's administration[12] to the start of Jimmy Carter's presidency .[4]
In 1982, while working as chief foreign feature writer for The Sunday Times , Winchester was on location for the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentine forces. Suspected of being a spy, Winchester was held for three months as a prisoner in Ushuaia , Tierra del Fuego .[13] He wrote about this event in his book, Prison Diary , published in 1983 and also in Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire , published in 1985 as well as Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories published in 2010, in which he tells of meeting up with one of his jailers many years later. In 1985, he shifted to working as a freelance writer and travelled to Hong Kong.[2] When Condé Nast re-branded Signature magazine as Condé Nast Traveler , Winchester was appointed its Asia-Pacific Editor.[14] Over the following fifteen years he contributed to a number of travel publications including Traveler , National Geographic and Smithsonian magazine.[13]
Winchester's first book, In Holy Terror , was published by Faber and Faber in 1975. The book drew heavily on his experiences of the turmoil in Northern Ireland. In 1976 he published his second book, American Heartbeat , which deals with his travels through the American heartland.[15] Winchester's first truly successful book was The Professor and the Madman (1998) published by Penguin UK as The Surgeon of Crowthorne . Telling the story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary , the book was a New York Times Best Seller .[16]
Though he still writes travel books, Winchester has used the narrative non-fiction form he adopted for The Professor and the Madman several more times, resulting in multiple best-selling books. The Map that Changed the World (2001) focuses on the geologist William Smith and was Winchester's second New York Times best seller.[17] The year 2003 saw the publication of The Meaning of Everything , which returns to the topic of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary , and of the best-selling Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded .[18] Winchester then published A Crack in the Edge of the World , a book about San Francisco's 1906 earthquake .[19] The Man Who Loved China (2008) retells the life of the scholar Joseph Needham .[20] The Alice Behind Wonderland , an exploration of the life and work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll ), and his relationship with Alice Liddell , was published in 2011.[21]
Winchester's book on the Pacific Ocean , Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers , was published in 2015. It was his second book about the Pacific region, his first, Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture having been published in 1991.
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Personal life [ edit ]
On 4 July 2011 Winchester was naturalized as an American citizen in a ceremony aboard the USS Constitution .[3]
Winchester lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts .[22]
Title
Year
ISBN
Publisher
Subject matter
Interviews and presentations
Comments
In Holy Terror: Reporting the Ulster Troubles
1974
ISBN 9780571106288
Faber & Faber
The Troubles
American Heartbeat: Notes From a Midwest Journey
1976
ISBN 9780571108787
Faber & Faber
Midwestern United States
Their Noble Lordships: Class and Power in Modern Britain
1982
ISBN 9780394524184
Random House
Social class in the United Kingdom , British nobility
Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj
1983
ISBN 9780192114495
Oxford University Press
British colonial architecture in India
Text by Jan Morris ; photographs by Winchester
Prison Diary: Argentina
1983
ISBN 9780701127534
Chatto & Windus
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
1985
ISBN 9780060598617
Hodder & Stoughton
British Overseas Territories
Also published under the title The Sun Never Sets .
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
1988
ISBN 9780246133632
HarperCollins
South Korea
Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture
1991
ISBN 9780138077938
Simon & Schuster
Hong Kong: Here Be Dragons
1992
ISBN 9781556702495
Stewart Tabori & Chang
Hong Kong
By Rich Browne, James Marshall and Simon Winchester.
Pacific Nightmare: How Japan Starts World War III : A Future History
1992
ISBN 9781559721363
Birch Lane Press
Fiction
Small World: A Global Photographic Project, 1987–94
1995
ISBN 9781899235056
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Written with Martin Parr .
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
1996
ISBN 9780274882915
Picador
Yangtze River
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words
1998
ISBN 9780140271287
Viking Press
William Chester Minor , Sir James Murray , Oxford English Dictionary
Booknotes interview with Winchester on The Professor and the Madman , November 8, 1998 , C-SPAN
Published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman
The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans
1999
ISBN 9780060195748
HarperCollins
Breakup of Yugoslavia , Yugoslav Wars
Presentation by Winchester on The Fracture Zone , October 31, 1999 , C-SPAN
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
2001
ISBN 9780060193614
HarperCollins
William Smith
Presentation by Winchester on The Map That Changed the World , September 7, 2001 , C-SPAN Interview about The Map That Changed the World by Powell's Books , 10 October 2006
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
2003
ISBN 9780198607021
Oxford University Press
Oxford English Dictionary
Presentation by Winchester on The Meaning of Everything , November 20, 2003 , C-SPAN
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
2003
ISBN 9780060838591
HarperCollins
1883 eruption of Krakatoa
Presentation by Winchester on Krakatoa , April 10, 2003 , C-SPAN
Simon Winchester's Calcutta
2004
ISBN 9781740595872
Lonely Planet
Calcutta, India
A collection of writings about the Indian city, edited with his son Rupert Winchester.
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
2005
ISBN 9780060572006
HarperCollins
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Presentation by Winchester on A Crack in the Edge of the World , October 21, 2005 , C-SPAN The Bat Segundo Show interview with Winchester on A Crack in the Edge of the World , December 28, 2006
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
2008
ISBN 9780060884611
HarperCollins
Joseph Needham
Presentation by Winchester on The Man Who Loved China , May 20, 2008 , C-SPAN Interview about Bomb, Book & Compass – The Life of Joseph Needham (transcript) by Ramona Koval , The Book Show , ABC Radio National , 3 October 2008
Title of the UK edition: Bomb, Book & Compass .
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
2010
ISBN 9780007341375
HarperCollins
History of the Atlantic Ocean
Presentation by Winchester on Atlantic , November 4, 2010 , C-SPAN Presentation by Winchester on Atlantic , November 21, 2010 , C-SPAN Interview about The Atlantic by Claudia Cragg, KGNU radio, 2 December 2010Q&A interview with Winchester on Atlantic , November 27, 2011 , C-SPAN
Also published under the title Atlantic: The Biography of an Ocean .
The Alice Behind Wonderland
2011
ISBN 9780190614546
Oxford University Press
Alice Liddell
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
2013
ISBN 9780062079619
HarperCollins
Presentation by Winchester on The Men Who United the States , October 18, 2013 , C-SPAN The Bat Segundo Show interview with Winchester on The Men Who United the States , November 26, 2013
The Man with the Electrified Brain
2013
ISBN 9781614520832
Byliner
When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
2015
ISBN 9780670785360
Viking Books for Young Readers
Earthquakes , Volcanoes , and Tsunamis
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
2015
ISBN 9780062315410
HarperCollins
History of the Pacific Ocean
Presentation by Winchester on Pacific , October 29, 2015 , C-SPAN
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
2018
ISBN 9780062652553
HarperCollins
Precision engineering
Interview with Winchester on The Perfectionists , November 17, 2018 , C-SPAN
Also published as Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World .
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
2021
ISBN 9780062938336
HarperCollins
Land tenure
Interview with Winchester on Land , February 17, 2021 , C-SPAN
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
2023
ISBN 9780063142886
HarperCollins
Knowledge , Information Systems
Honours [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ a b "My Turn: Simon Winchester on Becoming an American Citizen" . newsweek.com. 26 June 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2011 .
^ a b "Winchester Simon – Bio of Winchester Simon – AEI Speakers Bureau" . AEI Speakers Bureau. Retrieved 3 April 2010 .
^ "BookPage Interview August 2001: Simon Winchester" . Bookpage.com. August 2001. Archived from the original on 1 June 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2010 .
^ "Simon Winchester – Annotated Bibliography" . San Jose State University . Retrieved 5 April 2010 .
^ Winchester, Simon (31 January 1972). "13 killed as paratroops break riot" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 6 April 2010 .
^ Hoggart, Simon (22 July 1972). "11 die in Belfast hour of terror" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 6 April 2010 .
^ McCann, Eamonn (1972). "3: The Press & The British Army". The British Press and Northern Ireland . Northern Ireland Socialist Research Centre. Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
^ John, Ó Néill (24 April 2017). "Barney Watt: propaganda and obstructing justice in February 1971" . The Treason Felony Blog . Retrieved 6 September 2021 .
^ "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I..." TheyWorkForYou . Retrieved 6 September 2021 .
^ Pick, Hella (9 August 1974). "Dignity in the Last Goodbye" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 5 April 2010 .
^ a b "Simon Winchester" . ContemporaryWriters.com. 2004. Archived from the original on 13 December 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2010 .
^ "Travel Writers: Simon Winchester" . Rolf Pott's Vagabonding. Retrieved 8 April 2010 .
^ Thomson, Margie. "Simon Winchester, a man of many layers" . New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 10 January 2023 .
^ "Best Sellers Plus" . New York Times . 17 January 1999. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2010 .
^ "Best Sellers" . New York Times . 9 September 2001. Retrieved 8 April 2010 .
^ "Best Sellers" . New York Times . 25 August 2002. Retrieved 8 April 2010 .
^ "Best Sellers" . New York Times . 6 November 2005. Retrieved 8 April 2010 .
^ "About the Book – The Man Who Loved China" . HarperCollins. Retrieved 8 April 2010 .
^ "Simon Winchester Writer, Broadcaster and Traveler" . Simon Winchester.com. Retrieved 29 March 2011 .
^ Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2015 . Bloomsbury. 2015. pp. 324–5.
^ "Academic Staff" . St Catherine's College. Archived from the original on 13 May 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2010 .
^ "Simon Winchester" . Dalhousie University Registrar. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 21 November 2010 .
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