Simon Winchester obituary

Summary

Intrepid writer and journalist who reported on the Troubles and Watergate, and whose string of bestsellers began with The Surgeon of Crowthorne The author and journalist Simon Winchester, who has died after a heart attack aged 82, thought himself lucky to have enjoyed “a pretty interesting, world-wandering life”. Those wanderings yielded a harvest of 30 books across a vast spectrum of subjects: from the land beneath to the wind above; from earthquakes to dictionaries, oceans to engines. The globe-trotting polymath, an American citizen from 2011, loved to take an everyday “invisible thing” in…

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