About Simon Winchester,
Author of "The Man Who Loved China"

Simon Winchester studied geology at Oxford and has written for Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. In addition to The Man Who Loved China, Mr. Winchester is the author of "A Crack in the Edge of the World," "Krakatoa," "The Map That Changed the World," "The Professor and the Madman," "The Fracture Zone," "Outposts," and "Korea," among many other titles. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.

Websites About Simon Winchester and "The Man Who Loved China"

• Simon Winchester's website
  

• Simon Winchester interview with PM (Australian public broadcasting) (available in print and audio)

• Simon Winchester interview on PRI's The World

(audio)

• Simon Winchester on the Man Who Loved China (video -- scroll down the page)

• Simon Winchester speaks about The Man Who Loved China (YouTube.com)

• SlowTV: Simon Winchester on Joseph Needham and Bomb, Book and Compass (video)

Websites About Simon Winchester and His Other Works

• Bookbrowse: An Interview with Simon Winchester

• Contemporary Writers: Simon Winchester

• Interviews with Simon Winchester

• National Public Radio, "Talk of the Nation": The Meaning of Everything (audio)

• Powells.com Interviews: Simon Winchester

• Simon Winchester: Annotated Bibliography




• Travel Writers: Simon Winchester

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