Chris Heath

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Chris Heath
Born
Evesham, West Midlands, England
Education Rugby School
Alma mater Cambridge University
Occupations
  • Writer
  • journalist

Chris Heath is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Evesham in the West Midlands and attended Rugby School. He studied social and political science at Cambridge University. [1] Heath was a regular contributor to the popular English music magazine Smash Hits in the 1980s and early 1990s and has subsequently reported on a wide variety of non-fiction topics for GQ , The Atlantic , Esquire , and Vanity Fair ; as well as writing a number of books on popular culture. He won the 2013 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his article about the 2011 Zanesville, Ohio animal escape in GQ. [2]

Work

In 1989, Heath travelled with Pet Shop Boys on their first world tour and the result was the book entitled Pet Shop Boys, Literally, released in 1990. In 1993, he published Pet Shop Boys versus America which was written as he accompanied them on a US tour. [3] He wrote the liner notes to the reissues of the band's first eleven albums. Alongside Pet Shop Boys, he contributed to the commentary track on the 2003 PopArt DVD. He writes and edits the Pet Shop Boys' fan club magazine, also called Literally, and its follow-up, Annually, and conducts interviews for their tour programmes.

He is also the author of the best-selling biography of Robbie Williams, Feel (2004), and its follow-up, Reveal (2017). [1]

He has been a Contributing Editor at Details , Rolling Stone , [4] and American GQ. [5]

In 2019 he co-wrote the lyrics for the musical The Boy in the Dress, which was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company. [6]

He published an investigation of the Ponary massacre in Lithuania during World War II and its aftermath, No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust, in September 2024. [7]

His articles include:

For GQ Magazine:

For The Atlantic:

For Esquire:

References

  1. 1 2 James Flint (20 February 2005). "A writer's life: Chris Heath". The Telegraph . Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Longform Podcast #45: Chris Heath · Longform". Longform . 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  3. ↑ Savage, Mark (21 March 2020). "How the Pet Shop Boys accidentally made the best tour diary in pop history". BBC. London. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  4. ↑ "Chris Heath". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Chris Heath". GQ . Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Billington, Michael (2019-11-28). "The Boy in the Dress review – Robbie Williams has a ball with David Walliams". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  7. ↑ "Reviews – History: No Road Leading Back". Kirkus Reviews. New York. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  8. ↑ Heath, Chris (2012-02-06). "Terry Thompson and the Zanesville Ohio Zoo Massacre". GQ. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  9. ↑ Heath, Chris (2012-03-12). "Surviving the 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami". GQ. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  10. ↑ Heath, Chris (2010-09-09). "The True Story of Gary Faulkner, the Man Who Hunted Osama bin Laden and Inspired Nic Cage's 'Army of One'". GQ. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  11. ↑ Heath, Chris (2022-06-17). "A Lost Trove of Civil War Gold, an FBI Excavation, and Some Very Angry Treasure Hunters". The Atlantic. ISSN   2151-9463 . Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  12. ↑ Heath, Chris (2021-07-15). "The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  13. ↑ "The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn't". Esquire. 2022-10-17. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
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