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Simon Winchester

British journalist and popular historian.

Wikipedia

Portrait source · Wikimedia Commons

Recognized books

Wins

Lists

Index score

1998—2018

Recognition span

Author in the index

Simon Winchester has 3 books in the current index, recognized by prize programs between 1998 and 2018. The records span 4 leading prize families shown here.

Top recognition

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence1

Kirkus Prize1

National Book Critics Circle Awards1

Royal Society Science Book Prize1

Subject profile

Biography1

History1

Science1

Indexed works

Books by Simon Winchester

3 books · sorted by recognition

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's SuperpowersHistory20156 pts Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern WorldScience20184 pts The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English DictionaryBiography19984 pts

Year	Title	Subject	Score	Lists	Imprint
2015	Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers	History	6	2	Unknown
2018	Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World	Science	4	1	William Collins
1998	The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary	Biography	4	1	Unknown

Prize metrics come from Book Prize Index records. Biographical description and portrait metadata are sourced from the matched Wikidata and Wikimedia records; uncertain identity matches are omitted.

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