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 in Hampstead, London, and the London School of Economics, where he was the Executive Editor of The Beaver.
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[edit] Biography
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 the Radio 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]
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.[3][4]
[edit] Bibliography
- Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Music Industry (Faber and Faber, London, 1986)
- Mini: - The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car
- Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke - (Irish photographer and suicide)
- The Error World: An Affair With Stamps (2008) - (memoir of the author's stamp collecting obsession)
- Private Battles - (interwoven accounts from four diaries of ordinary Britains living through WW2)
- We are at War - (interwoven accounts from five diaries from the period preceding WW2)
- Our Hidden Lives - (interwoven threads from five diaries from post WW2 Britain)
- The Last Journey of William Huskisson - (pioneering development of steam railways in Britain)
- Mauve - (Victorian chemist William Perkin and his development of synthetic dyes)
- The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio One (2004) (account of turmoil at BBC radio station)
- The Wrestling - (British wrestling and its eccentric performers and fans)
- The End of Innocence - (AIDS in Thatcher's Britain)
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
He also regularly writes for The Observer newspaper. He was among the clients of Pat Kavanagh at United Agents.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e "Simon Garfield, Esq", Debrett's, retrieved 2011-07-06
- ^ a b "Simon Garfield", Faber & Faber, retrieved 2011-07-06
- ^ Gompertz, Will (2010) "Gomp/arts: Simon Garfield: A man of letters", BBC, 18 October 2010, retrieved 2011-07-06
- ^ Glancey, Jonathan (2010) "Just My Type by Simon Garfield and Manuale Tipographico by Giambattista Bodoni – review", The Guardian, 4 December 2010, retrieved 2011-07-06
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Works by or about Simon Garfield in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Our Hidden Lives, 2005 film-page
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