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Simon Winchester

Author of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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Simon Winchester was born in London, England on September 28, 1944. He read geology at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. After graduation in 1966, he joined a Canadian mining company and worked as field geologist in Uganda. The following year he decided to become a journalist. His first reporting job was for The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1969, he joined The Guardian and was named Britain's Journalist of the Year in 1971. He also worked for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times before becoming a freelancer. He is the author of numerous books including In Holy Terror, The River at the Center of the World, The Alice Behind Wonderland, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and.Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to journalism and literature. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary… (more)
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Works by Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making… 11,515 copies, 291 reviews
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3,979 copies, 115 reviews
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern… 3,654 copies, 77 reviews
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Narrator, some editions) 2,928 copies, 57 reviews
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California… 2,193 copies, 64 reviews
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist… 1,586 copies, 69 reviews
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast… 1,286 copies, 54 reviews
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics… 823 copies, 21 reviews
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (Author & Narrator) 737 copies, 20 reviews
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back… 706 copies, 16 reviews
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire 649 copies, 13 reviews
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal… 588 copies, 20 reviews
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World 399 copies, 9 reviews
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles 318 copies, 13 reviews
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans 253 copies, 13 reviews
The Alice Behind Wonderland 215 copies, 12 reviews
Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection 131 copies, 1 review
The Best American Travel Writing 2009 (Editor) 119 copies, 3 reviews
Their Noble Lordships: Class and Power in Modern Britain 111 copies, 4 reviews
Knowing What We Know: From the First Encyclopedia to Wikipedia 84 copies
Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture 74 copies, 1 review
Simon Winchester's Calcutta 68 copies, 1 review
When the Earth Shakes 68 copies, 3 reviews
The Day the World Exploded: The Earthshaking Catastrophe at Krakatoa 68 copies, 6 reviews
Pacific Nightmare : How Japan Starts World War III 62 copies, 1 review
When the Sky Breaks: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and the Worst Weather in the… 34 copies, 4 reviews
The Man with the Electrified Brain: Adventures in Madness (Kindle Single) 23 copies
The River at the Centre of the World; The Surgeon of Crowthorne; The Map… 18 copies
In Holy Terror 16 copies
Prison Diary, Argentina 14 copies
Outposts CD: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire 14 copies, 1 review
American Heartbeat: Notes from a Midwestern Journey 7 copies
Knowing what we know The transmission of knowledge: from ancient wisdom to… 2 copies
The Professor and the Madman; The Meaning of Everything; Krakatoa 2 copies
The Fatal Equation 2 copies
The Classic Age 1 copy
The End of the River 1 copy
An Interview with Simon Winchester 1 copy
A century after his death, everyone seems to love RLS 1 copy
Sir Francis Drake is still capable of kicking up a fuss 1 copy
The Writer, the Madman & the Printer: Notes on a Writer's Artistic… 1 copy
"Word Imperfect" 1 copy
Aerial Hong Kong 1 copy
Shanghai Winchester 1 copy
Crânes. 300 spécimens de la collection Dudley 1 copy
Penguin Readers Level 5: the Surgeon of Crowthorne (Penguin Longman… 1 copy
The End of the River: Why the Long Struggle to Hold Back the Mississippi… 1 copy
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and… (Contributor) 525 copies, 15 reviews
In Other Words (Foreword, some editions) 397 copies, 12 reviews
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on… (Contributor) 236 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2001 (Contributor) 232 copies, 1 review
The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (Contributor) 210 copies, 1 review
The Kindness of Strangers (Author) 195 copies, 3 reviews
Weird and Wonderful Words (Foreword) 154 copies
By the Seat of My Pants (Contributor) 138 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 73: Necessary Journeys (Contributor) 135 copies
Cascadia's Fault: The Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate… (Introduction) 134 copies, 9 reviews
Granta 56: What Happened to Us? (Contributor) 122 copies
Original Letters from India (Introduction, some editions) 119 copies, 3 reviews
Tales from Nowhere (Contributor) 115 copies, 2 reviews
National Geographic Destinations: Islands Lost in Time 111 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2010 (Contributor) 98 copies, 6 reviews
Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National… (Introduction, some editions) 95 copies, 1 review
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (Contributor, some editions) 91 copies
What’s Language Got to Do with It? (Contributor) 51 copies, 2 reviews
Small World (Introduction, some editions) 51 copies
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China (Contributor) 28 copies
Extreme Earth (Foreword) 16 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1994 (Author "Eternal Argument" and "Two Centuries of the IRA") 15 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1996 (Author "The Escape of the Amethyst") 11 copies
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1944-09-28
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UK
USA (naturalised 2011)
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London, England, UK
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Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, USA
Scotland, UK
Uganda
India
New York, New York, USA
Education
Oxford University (BA | 1966 - St. Catherine's College)
Occupations
journalist
author
broadcaster
Relationships
Sato, Setsuko (wife)
Agents
Bill Hamilton
Peter Matson
Jennifer Hengen
Organizations
The Guardian
Condé Nast Traveler
National Geographic
Smithsonian
Awards and honors
Order of the British Empire (Officer, 2006)
Lawrence J. Burpee Medal (2016)
Fellow, Royal Canadian Geological Society
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