Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, OBE, is a British author and journalist who resides in Massachusetts, in the United States. Through his career at The Guardian, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. As an author, Winchester has written or contributed to more than a dozen nonfiction books, has written one novel, and his articles have appeared in several travel publications, including Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 September 1944
and the beginning of the beginning of what is now the most populous Islamic state on earth, Indonesia.
The comparisons to Katrina are numerous and just eerie,
I would argue that William Smith turned a lot of things on their head with this map, which was a hugely important and profound development,
The San Francisco earthquake was not caused by God,
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.
We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.
I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.