Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester was a geologist at Oxford and worked in
Africa and on offshore oil rigs before becoming a full-time
globe-trotting foreign correspondent and writer. He
currently lives on a small farm in the Berkshires in
Massachusetts, an apartment in New York's West Village and
in the Western Isles of Scotland.

Simon Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the
British Empire (OBE) by HM The Queen in 2006. He received
the honor in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.