Simon Parkin

Simon Parkin is an award-winning British author and journalist. He is contributing writer for the New Yorker, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Orwell Prize finalist, and winner of The Wingate Literary Prize.

His work has been featured in 'The Best American Nonrequired Reading'. He is a finalist in the Foreign Press Association Media Awards and recipient of two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. He lives in West Sussex, England.