While on assignment in Uganda, Winchester happened upon a copy of James Morris' Coronation Everest, an account of the 1953 expedition that led to the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. His first assignment was to work as a field geologist searching for copper deposits in Uganda. He graduated in 1966, and found work with Falconbridge of Africa, a Canadian mining company. He spent a year hitchhiking around the United States, then in 1963 went up to St Catherine's College, Oxford, to study geology. Winchester has written or contributed to more than a dozen nonfiction books, has written one novel, and has contributed to several travel magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.īorn in London, Winchester attended several boarding schools in Dorset, including Hardye's School. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Simon Winchester OBE (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist.
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