AUTHOR

Simon Winchester

Author and journalist Simon Winchester was born in England but favours the United States.

Books by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Average rating: 6.98

86 ratings

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Average rating: 8.25

8 ratings

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Average rating: 8.29

7 ratings

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words by Simon Winchester (25-Jun-1998) Hardcover

Average rating: 8.25

4 ratings

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.)

Average rating: 6.67

3 ratings

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (P.S.)

Average rating: 9

2 ratings

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

Average rating: 6

2 ratings

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Average rating: 10

1 rating