Simon Winchester was born on 28 September 1944 and is a British-American author and journalist.
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14 Facts About Winchester Simon
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Winchester Simon has written or contributed to more than a dozen nonfiction books, has written one novel, and has contributed to several travel magazines, among them Conde Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.
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Winchester Simon spent a year hitchhiking around the United States, then in 1963 went up to St Catherine's College, Oxford, to study geology.
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Winchester Simon graduated in 1966, and found work with Falconbridge of Africa, a Canadian mining company.
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Morris urged Winchester Simon to give up geology the very day he received the letter, and get a job as a writer on a newspaper.
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In 1969 Winchester Simon joined The Guardian, first as a regional correspondent based in Newcastle upon Tyne, but later as its Northern Ireland correspondent.
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In 1971, Winchester Simon became involved in a controversy over the British press's coverage of Northern Ireland on the floor of the House of Commons when Bernadette Devlin described his role in reporting the shooting to death by British soldiers of Barney Watt in Hooker Street in the morning of Saturday, 6 February 1971.
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In 1982, while working as chief foreign feature writer for The Sunday Times, Winchester Simon was on location for the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentine forces.
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Winchester Simon wrote about this event in his book, Prison Diary, published in 1983 and in Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire, published in 1985 as well as Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories published in 2010, in which he tells of meeting up with one of his jailers many years later.
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Winchester Simon then published A Crack in the Edge of the World, a book about San Francisco's 1906 earthquake.
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On 4 July 2011 Winchester Simon was naturalized as an American citizen in a ceremony aboard the USS Constitution.
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Winchester Simon was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for "services to journalism and literature" in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours list of 2006.
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Winchester Simon was named an honorary fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford in October 2009.
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Winchester Simon received an honorary degree from Dalhousie University in October 2010.
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