Simon Winchester
Författare till Professorn och galningen : en berättelse om mord, vansinne och tillkomsten av Oxford English dictionary
Om författaren
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 visa mer 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) visa färre
Verk av Simon Winchester
Professorn och galningen : en berättelse om mord, vansinne och tillkomsten av Oxford English dictionary (1998) 12,043 exemplar
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (2003) — Berättare, vissa utgåvor — 3,022 exemplar
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (2005) 2,277 exemplar
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (2010) 1,355 exemplar
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One… (2013) 882 exemplar
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (2018) — Author & Narrator — 839 exemplar
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time (1996) 736 exemplar
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming… (2015) 650 exemplar
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic (2023) 306 exemplar
When the Sky Breaks: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and the Worst Weather in the World (Smithsonian) (2017) 38 exemplar
The River at the Centre of the World; The Surgeon of Crowthorne; The Map That Changed the World (2004) 19 exemplar
The Fatal Equation 2 exemplar
An Interview with Simon Winchester 1 exemplar
The Classic Age 1 exemplar
The Pacific by Simon Winchester (1991-02-21) 1 exemplar
Bu ping jing de Taiping Yang : da hang hai shi dai de quan li jing ji chang, qian dong ren lei ming yun de hai yang shi… (2017) 1 exemplar
The Surgeon of Crowthoune 1 exemplar
The Writer, the Madman & the Printer: Notes on a Writer's Artistic License/Or, Setting the Record Straight (2002) 1 exemplar
Aerial Hong Kong 1 exemplar
"Word Imperfect" 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 558 exemplar
Med andra ord : språkälskarens guide till världens märkligaste ord och uttryck (2004) — Förord, vissa utgåvor — 410 exemplar
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 255 exemplar
Cascadia's Fault: The Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America (2011) — Inledning — 142 exemplar
Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic (2006) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 100 exemplar
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (1990) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 96 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1994 (1994) — Author "Eternal Argument" and "Two Centuries of the IRA" — 15 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1996 (1996) — Author "The Escape of the Amethyst" — 12 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1944-09-28
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
USA (naturalised 2011) - Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- London, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, USA
Scotland, UK
Uganda
India
New York, New York, USA - Utbildning
- St. Catherine's College, Oxford University (BA|1966)
- Yrken
- journalist
author
broadcaster
geologist - Relationer
- Sato, Setsuko (wife)
- Organisationer
- The Guardian
Condé Nast Traveler
National Geographic
Smithsonian - Priser och utmärkelser
- Officer, Order of the British Empire (2006)
Lawrence J. Burpee Medal (2016)
Fellow, Royal Canadian Geological Society - Agent
- Bill Hamilton
Peter Matson
Jennifer Hengen
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
The Man Who Loved China group read i 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (december 2014)
Recensioner
Listor
Summer Reading (1)
True Crime (1)
Hobbies & Travel (1)
Best Biographies (1)
Science (1)
Test (1)
Europe (1)
Priser
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (Vinnare – Facklitteratur – 2019)
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers (Finalist – History/Biography – 2016)
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- 34,614
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- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
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- ISBN
- 421
- Språk
- 18
- Favoritmärkt
- 123
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