Simon Winchester Biography

Simon Winchester, a British novelist and journalist, has a talent for locating interesting people and situations to write about. Curiosity, enthusiasm, and a journalist's sense for what makes excellent copy have driven Winchester's exploration of the obscure, archaic, and idiosyncratic, resulting in bestseller novels that have been described as exceptional, fascinating, epic, and intimate. His subjects range from a criminally insane American locked up in an English asylum for murder who helped compile the Oxford English Dictionary (The Professor and the Madman) to a freethinking married Englishman who followed his mistress to China to strengthen his conviction that the Chinese were responsible for hundreds of humanity's most familiar innovations (The Man Who Loved China). Other books by Winchester include the New York Times best-sellers A Crack in the Edge of the World, about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and The Map That Changed The World, about an orphaned son of an English country blacksmith who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and eventually became the father of modern geology.

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