Ron Haviv: Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced
images of conflict and humanitarian crises from around the world
that have made headlines since the end of the Cold War.
Numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including
The Louvre, the United Nations, and the Council on Foreign
Relations. A co-founder of the photo agency VII, his work is
published by magazines worldwide. He has published two critically
acclaimed collections of his photography - Blood and Honey: A
Balkan War Journal and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul.
Haviv has been the central character in three films including
National Geographic Explorer's Freelance in a World of Risk that
explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. In addition,
Haviv has spoken about his work on NPR, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC,
The Charlie Rose Show, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight
and CNN.
Simon Winchester: Simon Winchester, author, journalist, and
broadcaster, has worked as a foreign correspondent for most of his
career, although he graduated from Oxford in 1966 with a degree in
geology and spent a year working as a geologist in the Ruwenzori
Mountains in western Uganda, and on oil rigs in the North Sea,
before joining his first newspaper in 1967.
His journalistic work, mainly for The Guardian and The Sunday
Times, has based him in Belfast, Washington DC, New Delhi, New
York, London, and Hong Kong, where he covered such stories as the
Ulster crisis, the creation of Bangladesh, the fall of President
Marcos, the Watergate affair, the Jonestown Massacre, the
assassination of Egypt's President Sadat, the recent death and
cremation of Pol Pot and, in 1982 the Falklands War. During this
conflict he was arrested on spying charges and spent three months
in an Argentine prison in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. He has been a
freelance writer since 1987.
He now works principally as an author, although he contributes to a
number of American and British magazines and journals, including
Harper's, Lapham's Quarterly, Smithsonian Magazine, National
Geographic, The Spectator, Granta, The New York Times and The
Atlantic Monthly.
He writes and presents television films - including a series on the
final years of colonial Hong Kong and on a variety of other
historical topics - and is a frequent contributor to the BBC radio
program, From Our Own Correspondent. Winchester also lectures
widely - most recently before London's Royal Geographical Society -
and to audiences aboard cruise liners.
His books cover a wide range of subjects, including a study of
outposts of the British Empire today, the colonial architecture of
India, aristocracy, the American Midwest, his experiences in an
Argentine prison on spying charges, his description of a six-month
walk through the Korean peninsula, the Pacific Ocean and the future
of China. Most recently he has written The River at the Center of
the World, about China's Yangtze River; the best-selling The
Professor and the Madman; and The Meaning of Everything, both about
the making of the Oxford English Dictionary; The Fracture Zone; A
Return to the Balkans, which recounts his journey from Austria to
Turkey during the 1999 Kosovo crisis; the best-selling The Map that
Changed the World, about the nineteenth-century geologist William
Smith; Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883; A
Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California
Earthquake of 1906; and, finally, The Man Who Loved China. His next
book, to be published in late 2010, is Atlantic: A Biography of the
Ocean.
For services to literature and journalism Simon Winchester was made
Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE, by Queen Elizabeth
II in 2006. He was made Honorary Fellow of St. Catherine's College,
Oxford, in 2009.
Simon Winchester lives in New York City and on a small farm in the
Berkshires in Massachusetts.
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