Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, OBE is a British-American writer, journalist, and broadcaster with a prolific career spanning decades.
Beginning at The Guardian in 1969, he covered major events including Bloody Sunday and Watergate.
His journalism took him across the globe, from Northern Ireland to the Falklands, where he was briefly imprisoned as a suspected spy.
Winchester found major literary success with The Professor and the Madman (1998), a New York Times bestseller about the Oxford English Dictionary.
He has since written numerous acclaimed narrative nonfiction works covering geology, geography, science, and history, cementing his reputation as a masterful popular nonfiction storyteller.
