Simon Winchester: Neilly Series Lecture
Title
Simon Winchester: Neilly Series Lecture
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Date
2002-10-11
Description
Winchester is the acclaimed author of the international bestsellers The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology. He has recently completed a book on the devastating 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, an Indonesian volcano. Originally a geologist, Winchester was a travel correspondent and freelance writer for such periodicals as Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Smithsonian. His talk, "Pleasures of a Writing Life," describes his adventures, while researching stories, which include a stint in a Patagonian jail and a trip down the Yangtze River.
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lecture
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Citation
Winchester, Simon , “Simon Winchester: Neilly Series Lecture,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 24, 2024, https://rclomeka2.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/4813.