Simon Garfield

Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960)[1]  is a British journalist and non-fiction author. He was educated at the independent University College School inHampstead, London, and the London School of Economics, where he was executive editor of The Beaver.



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[hide]  *1 Biography  ==Biography[ edit] == Garfield was born in London in 1960.[2]  He won the Guardian/NUS 'Student Journalist of the Year' award In 1981, and the same year he became a sub-editor at theRadio Times.[1]  He wrote scripts for BBC radio documentaries in the early 1980s.[1]  He also wrote for Time Out magazine, acting as editor from 1988 to 1989.[1]  He has written for newspapers such as The Independent, the Independent on Sunday, and The Observer, and was named Mind Journalist of the Year in 2005.[1]
 * 2 Bibliography
 * 3 References
 * 4 External links

He is the author of several books including Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry, the Somerset Maugham Prize-winning The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS, The Wrestling, The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1, and Mauve.[2]

In 2010 his book Just My Type was published, exploring the history of typographic fonts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Gompertz_3-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[3] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Glancey_4-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[4]

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 * Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Music Industry (Faber and Faber, London, 1986)
 * The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS (1994)
 * The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio One (1998) - (account of turmoil at BBC radio station)
 * Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World (2000) - (Victorian chemist William Perkin and his development of synthetic dyes), W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393-02005-3
 * The Last Journey of William Huskisson (2002) - (pioneering development of steam railways in Britain)
 * Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain (2004) - (interwoven threads from five diaries from post-World War II Britain)
 * We are at War: The Remarkable Diaries of Five Ordinary People (2005) - (interwoven accounts from five diaries from the period preceding World War II)
 * Private Battles: Our Intimate Diaries - How the War Almost Defeated Us (2006) - (interwoven accounts from four diaries of ordinary Britains living through World War II)
 * The Error World: An Affair With Stamps (2008) - (memoir of the author's stamp collecting obsession)
 * The Wrestling - (British wrestling and its eccentric performers and fans)
 * Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke (2009) - (Irish photographer and suicide)
 * Mini: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car (2009)
 * Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Profile Books Ltd, 2010)
 * On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does (Profile Books Ltd, 2012)
 * To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence - A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing (Canongate, 2013)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[5]