Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester OBE | |
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Born | London, England | 28 September 1944
Occupation | Journalist, author |
Education | University of Oxford |
Spouse | Catherine Heald (div.) Setsuko Sato |
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Simon Winchester
Early life and education
Born in London, Winchester attended several
Career
While on assignment in Uganda, Winchester happened upon a copy of
In 1969 Winchester joined
After leaving Northern Ireland in 1972, Winchester was briefly assigned to
In 1982, while working as chief foreign feature writer for
Winchester's first book, In Holy Terror, was published by
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.
Winchester's book on the
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Personal life
On 4 July 2011 Winchester was naturalized as an
Winchester lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.[22]
Works
Title | Year | ISBN | Publisher | Subject matter | Interviews and presentations | Comments |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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, 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 2010 Q&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 |
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The Man with the Electrified Brain | 2013 | ISBN 9781614520832 |
Byliner |
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When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis | 2015 | ISBN 9780670785360 |
Viking Books for Young Readers |
Tsunamis |
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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 | Information Systems |
Honours
- Winchester was appointed New Year Honours list of 2006.
- Winchester was named an honorary fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford in October 2009.[23]
- Winchester received an honorary degree from Dalhousie University in October 2010.[24]
- Winchester received the Lawrence J. Burpee Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in November 2016. He was also elected a Fellow of the RCGS.
References
- ^ Simon Winchester (24 March 2010). "Simon Winchester from HarperCollins Publishers". Harpercollins.com. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ^ a b c "Simon Winchester Bio". Simon Winchester.com. Archived from the original on 20 April 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Official website
- Simon Winchester at British Council: Literature
- Simon Winchester at Library of Congress, with 34 library catalogue records
- Simon Winchester at IMDb
- Simon Winchester: Annotated Bibliography – comprehensive bibliography of articles, essays, and all of Winchester's books, at SJSU’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (archived in 2011)
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview of Winchester by In Depth, C-SPAN, 1 August 2004