Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester OBE
Winchester in 2013
Born	(1944-09-28) 28 September 1944 (age 79) London, England
Occupation	Journalist, author
Education	University of Oxford
Spouse	Catherine Heald (div.) Setsuko Sato
Website
simonwinchester.com

Simon Winchester OBE (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has written or contributed to over 30 nonfiction books, has written one novel, and has contributed to several magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.