Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester has 3 books on the award lists tracked here, recognised between 1998 and 2018. Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998), the Royal Society Science Book Prize for Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (2018), and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction for Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers (2015).