Graham Boynton

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Graham Boynton
Born
United Kingdom
OccupationJournalist
Notable creditAuthor of Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland
SpouseAdriaane Pielou
ChildrenEmma Louise Boynton and Lucy Boynton

Graham Boynton is a British-Zimbabwean journalist, consultant, travel writer and editor.

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Background

Boynton was born in the United Kingdom and raised in Bulawayo, [1] Rhodesia where he was educated at Peterhouse Boys' School and Christian Brothers College. He later graduated from the University of Natal in neighbouring South Africa.

Boynton began a career in journalism as a political reporter during the Rhodesian Bush War. His reportage in South Africa led to the apartheid government declaring him an "undesirable alien", after which they deported him. [1] He subsequently established himself in London, writing for international magazines. In the mid-1980s, he was appointed as the editor of Business Traveller magazine. In 1988, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a writer and editor for Condé Nast Publications for ten years. He was an editor at Condé Nast Traveler and a contracted writer for Vanity Fair . [2] He also wrote for a number of other publications in America and the UK.

In 1998, he returned to the UK to become the travel editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph . A year earlier, he published Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland about the end of white minority rule in South Africa. [3] It was named as one of the Washington Post 's Best Non Fiction Books of 1998. [2] He was the Group Travel Editor of the Telegraph Media Group from 1998 to December 2011.

He also regularly contributes pieces about Zimbabwe. [4] [5] [6]

Boynton's latest book, Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover, was published in October 2022. [7]

Family

He is married to travel writer Adriaane Pielou and they have two daughters together, Emma-Louise, who works in broadcast journalism, and actress Lucy Boynton. [2] [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Stubborn isolation, NewStatesman.com, 11 December 1998.
  2. 1 2 3 "ILTM - Graham Boynton". Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
  3. ↑ African Sunset Business Week. 15 September 1997
  4. ↑ Ian Smith has sadly been proved right The Telegraph. 22 November 2007
  5. ↑ "Telegraph Christmas Appeal: we must not forget Zimbabwe", Telegraph.co.uk, 27 November 2010.
  6. ↑ Zimbabwe tourism: should we go back?, Telegraph.co.uk, 24 September 2010.
  7. ↑ "WILD: THE LIFE OF PETER BEARD: PHOTOGRAPHER, ADVENTURER, LOVER". Kirkus Reviews. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  8. ↑ Pielou, Adriaane (30 December 2006). "My Lucy, the film star". The Telegraph . Retrieved 1 January 2011.
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