Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester is a British-American author and journalist who worked at The Guardian, where he covered events including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate scandal. His nonfiction spans subjects from the eruption in Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary in The Professor and the Madman. Winchester is also known for The Map That Changed the World and The Perfectionists, and has written for magazines such as Smithsonian and National Geographic.