Simon Winchester

British writer, journalist and broadcaster; author of Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers, A Crack at the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906; The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology; Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary and the forthcoming Atlantic: The Biography of an Ocean