Giles Whittell

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Giles Quintin Sykes Whittell (born in March 1966) [1] is an English author and journalist who has worked for The Times as Correspondent in Russia and the United States.

Whittell was educated at Sherborne School [2] and Christ's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1988). [3] He has worked for The Times of London since 1993, first as US West Coast Correspondent from 1993 to 1999 and later as Moscow Correspondent (1999–2001) and Washington Bureau Chief (2009–2011). As of 2019 he is the paper's chief leader writer [4] (editorial writer).

His books [5] include Lambada Country (1992), Extreme Continental (1994), Spitfire Women of World War II (2007) and Bridge of Spies , a New York Times bestselling account of the 1962 spy swap of Rudolf Abel for Gary Powers and Frederic Pryor. The book was published in the US in 2010 and the United Kingdom in 2011. [6]

His latest book, Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration, was published by Atria Books in 2019. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Giles Quintin Sykes Whittell Endole
  2. ↑ "Data" (PDF). oldshirburnian.org.uk. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  3. ↑ The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991, CUP, 1991, p. 1460
  4. 1 2 Whittell, Giles (2019-11-19). Snow. ISBN   9781982105471.
  5. ↑ "Whittell, Giles [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org.
  6. ↑ Whittell, Giles (3 May 2018). Bridge of spies: a true story of the Cold War. Broadway Books. OCLC   505417133 – via Open WorldCat.
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