| Simon Winchester  Born: 28-Sep-1944
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Professor and the Madman Wife: Judy (wife #1, m. 1966, div., three sons)
Wife: (m. 1989, div. 1997)
Daughter: (from an extramarital affair)
University: BA Geology, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University
The Sunday Times of London Foreign Correspondent
The Guardian Reporter
The London Daily Mail American Bureau Chief
Officer of the British Empire 2006 New Years Honours List
Espionage (charged and jailed, during Falklands War)
Risk Factors: Color Blindness
Author of books:
In Holy Terror: Reporting the Ulster Troubles (1974)
American Heartbeat: Some Notes From a Midwestern Journey (1976)
Their Noble Lordships: Class and Power in Modern Britain (1982)
Prison Diary, Argentina: A Falklands Story (1983)
Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj (1983, with Jan Morris)
Outposts (1985)
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles (1988)
Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture (1991)
Pacific Nightmare: How Japan Starts World War III (1992)
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time (1996)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998)
The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)
The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans (1999)
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (2001)
The Warden of English: The Life of H. W. Fowler (2001)
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (2003)
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (2003)
Simon Winchester's Calcutta (2004, travel)
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (2005)
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