Simon Winchester

Simon Bernard Adrian Winchester (28 September 1944 – 3 November 2026) was a British and naturalised American author and journalist. During his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. He wrote or contributed to over 30 best-selling nonfiction books, one novel, and several magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic. His breakthrough book was The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998), published in North America as The Professor and the Madman.