Graham Boynton is a British-Zimbabwean journalist, consultant, travel writer and editor.

Background

Boynton was born in the United Kingdom and raised in Bulawayo,Stubborn isolation
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Rhodesia Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...

where he was educated at

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and Christian Brothers College. He later graduated from the University of Natal in neighbouring South Africa. Boynton began a career in journalism as a political reporter during the

Rhodesian Bush War The Rhodesian Bush War, also called the Second as well as the Zimbabwe War of Liberation, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia). The conflict pitted three for ...

. His reportage in South Africa led to the

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

government declaring him an 'undesirable alien,' after which they deported him. He subsequently established himself in London, writing for international magazines. In the mid-1980s, he was appointed editor of Business Traveller magazine. In 1988, he moved to New York City where he worked as a writer and editor for

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for ten years. He was an editor at

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and a contracted writer for '' Vanity Fair''. He also wrote for a number of other publications in America and the UK. In 1998, he returned to the UK to become the travel editor of the ''

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'' and ''

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''. A year earlier, he published ''Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland'' about the end of white minority rule in South Africa. It was named as one of the '' Washington Post's'' Best Non Fiction Books of 1998. He was Group Travel Editor of the

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from 1998 to December 2011. He also regularly contributes pieces about

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

. Boynton's latest book, ''Wild: The Life of

Peter Beard Peter Hill Beard (January 22, 1938 – March 31 / April 19, 2020) was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journ ...

: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover'', was published in October 2022.

Family

He is married to travel writer, Adriaane Pielou and they have two daughters together, Emma-Louise, who works in broadcast journalism, and actress

Lucy Boynton Lucy Boynton (born January 17, 1994) is a British-American actress. Raised in London, she made her professional debut as the young Beatrix Potter in '' Miss Potter'' (2006). She starred in television productions '' Ballet Shoes'' (2007), '' Sens ...

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External links

Graham Boynton @ Journalisted
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Family

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