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Simon Winchester

Author, "The Man Who Loved China," "The Professor and The Madman," "Atlantic"

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

Author, "The Man Who Loved China," "The Professor and The Madman," "Atlantic"

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Simon Winchester Biography

British author and journalist Simon Winchester has a knack for finding fascinating people and events to write about. Fueled by curiosity, passion, and a journalist's instinct for what makes "good copy," Winchester has explored the obscure, arcane, and idiosyncratic, resulting in bestselling books that have been called "extraordinary," "mesmerizing" and "both epic and intimate."

His subjects range from a criminally insane American locked up in an English asylum for murder who was instrumental in compiling the Oxford English Dictionary (The Professor and the Madman) to a freethinking, married Englishman who followed his mistress to China to bolster his conviction that the Chinese were responsible for hundreds of mankind's most familiar innovations (The Man Who Loved China).

Winchester's other books include the New York Times bestsellers 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 ultimately became the father of modern geology.

In his latest book, Winchester plumbs the depths of the mysterious cases that surround the brain in SKULLS: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection. In SKULLS, Winchester presents a spellbinding exploration of an obsessive collector of over 300 animal skulls, including amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles.

Winchester's own life is as fascinating as that of his subjects. After graduating from Oxford with a degree in geology, he spent a year working as a geologist in the Ruwenzori Mountains in western Uganda and on oil rigs in the North Sea. As a foreign correspondent, Winchester was based in Belfast; Washington, D.C.; New Delhi; New York; London; and Hong Kong, where he covered such stories as Bloody Sunday, Watergate, the fall of President Marcos, the Jonestown Massacre, the assassination of Egypt's President Sadat, and the 1982 Falklands War. During the Falklands conflict, he was arrested and spent three months in prison in Tierra del Fuego, on spying charges.

He also served as Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler, and contributed to a number of travel publications including National Geographic and Smithsonian magazine.

Winchester writes and presents television films on a variety of historical topics and is a frequent contributor to BBC radio. Yet, the self-described "traditionalist who loves fine paper and ink" has written his first book entirely for a digital medium, an interactive app for the iPad called Skulls, published by Touch Press and available on the App Store. "The app is a wonderful way of exploring the skull in human culture and as a symbol," Winchester says.

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Simon Winchester Speaking Topics

  • From Madmen To Oceans: a Conversation With Simon Winchester

    Hearing Simon Winchester speak is like spending time with one of the most fascinating dinner guests you’ve ever hosted, one your friends would beg you to invite back again and again. The author of such bestselling books as The Man Who Loved China, Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman and his latest, Atlantic, Winchester’s presentations are a fascinating blend of people, history, personal stories, language, travel, science and amazing information about the planet we live on. Winchester offers a vast range of speech topics, tailored for your audience, all told with his lively English humor and skills as a superb storyteller who can make any subject come to life. To hear him speak is to understand the world in a whole new way, one that is suddenly more relevant and more connected.

    “There is, deep down, an eagerness for real stories, real narratives, about rich and interesting things,” he says.

    Winchester delivers this in abundance, to the delight of audiences worldwide.

Simon Winchester Videos

  • Simon Winchester at TEDxEast - YouTube
    Simon Winchester at TEDxEast - YouTube
    Simon Winchester, best-selling author, journalist, and broadcaster, has worked as a foreign correspondent for most of his career.
  • Simon Winchester on The Man Who Loved China
    Simon Winchester on The Man Who Loved China
    Journalist, broadcaster, and bestselling author, Simon Winchester, tells the remarkable story of Joseph Needha.
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Simon Winchester Books

  • The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
  • Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection
    Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection
  • Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
    Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
  • The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
    The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
  • The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
    The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
    The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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  • What topics does Simon Winchester speak about?

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Simon Winchester is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as From Madmen To Oceans: a Conversation With Simon Winchester. The estimated speaking fee range to book Simon Winchester for your event is available upon request. Simon Winchester generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Jimmy Wales, Dana Gioia, Charles Kaiser, Mitch Resnick and Michael Hyatt. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Simon Winchester for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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