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Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960) is a British journalist and non-fiction author.


Biography

Garfield was born in London in 1960.Simon Garfield
, Faber & Faber, retrieved 6 July 2011 He was educated at the independent
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, London, and the
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, where he was executive editor of '' The Beaver''. He won the
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'Student Journalist of the Year' award in 1981, and the same year he became a sub-editor at the ''
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''. He wrote scripts for BBC radio documentaries in the early 1980s. He also wrote for '' Time Out'' magazine, acting as editor from 1988 to 1989. He has written for newspapers such as ''
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The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the w ...
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Journalist of the Year in 2005. He was among the clients of Pat Kavanagh at United Agents. He is the author of several books including ''Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry'', the
Somerset Maugham Prize The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors. Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awa ...
-winning ''The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS'', ''The Wrestling'', ''The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1'', and ''Mauve''. In 2010 his book '' Just My Type'' was published, exploring the history of typographic fonts.Gompertz, Will (2010)
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'', 4 December 2010, retrieved 6 July 2011 Garfield appeared on 25 February 2013 episode of ''
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'' to discuss why he wrote ''On the Map''. Garfield's book ''To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence'' is one of the inspirations behind the charity event '' Letters Live''.


Bibliography


Books

* * ''Money for Nothing: Greed and Exploitation in the Music Industry'' (1986) * ''The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS'' (1994) * ''The Wrestling'' (1996) * ''The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio One'' (1998) – (account of turmoil at BBC radio station) * ''
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: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World'' (2000) – (Victorian chemist
William Perkin Sir William Henry Perkin (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Though he failed in trying t ...
and his development of
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), W. W. Norton & Company, * ''The Last Journey of
William Huskisson William Huskisson (11 March 177015 September 1830) was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool. He is commonly known as the world's first widely reported railway passenger casu ...
'' (2002) – (pioneering development of
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in Britain) * ''Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain'' (2004) – (interwoven threads from five diaries from post-
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
Britain) * ''We are at War: The Remarkable Diaries of Five Ordinary People'' (2005) – (interwoven accounts from five diaries from the period preceding World War II) * ''Private Battles: Our Intimate Diaries – How the War Almost Defeated Us'' (2006) – (interwoven accounts from four diaries of ordinary Britains living through World War II) * ''The Error World: An Affair With Stamps'' (2008) – (memoir of the author's
stamp collecting Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study (or combined study and collection) of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteent ...
obsession) * ''The Wrestling'' – (British wrestling and its eccentric performers and fans) * ''Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of
Bob Carlos Clarke Robert Carlos Clarke (24 June 1950 – 25 March 2006) was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait and commercial photography. Carlos Clarke produced six books during his career: ''The ...
'' (2009) – (Irish photographer and suicide) * ''
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: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car'' (2009) * '' Just My Type: A Book About Fonts'' (
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, 2010) * ''On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does'' (
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Ltd, 2012) * ''To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence – A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing'' (Canongate, 2013) * (as editor) ''A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt''. (Canongate, 2015) * ''Timekeepers: How The World Became Obsessed With Time'' (Canongate, 2016) * ''In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World'' (Canongate, 2018) * ''Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond'' (
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, 2020) * ''All the Knowledge in the World : The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia'' (Orion Publishing, 2022)


Critical studies, reviews and biography

*''Smithsonian'' often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "The history of mapmaking, Jared Diamond’s latest and more recent books reviewed" online.


References


External links

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Our Hidden Lives, 2005 film-page


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Video of Garfield's interview with Colbert
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