Simon Winchester

Writers bio:
Simon Winchester was born and educated in England, has lived in Africa, India and Asia, and now lives in New York.

Having reported from almost everywhere during an award-winning twenty-year career as a Guardian foreign correspondent, he is currently the Asia-Pacific editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as to the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC.

Simon?s books include: ?The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Oxford English Dictionary?; ?Outposts: Travel to the Remains of the British Empire?; ?Korea: A Walk through the Land of Miracles?; ?The Pacific?; ?Pacific Nightmare?, a fictional account of the aftermath of the Hong Kong hand over; ?Prison Diary, Argentina?, the story of three months spent in a Patagonian jail on spying charges during the Falklands war, and ?The River at the Centre of the World ? A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time.