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Simon Winchester, Author of ‘The Professor and the Madman,’ Has Died

Source NYT Books 人文21h ago
Summary

He was a geologist who switched careers and became a prolific and adventurous journalist. He died at 82.

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Simon Winchester, Author of ‘The Professor and the Madman,’ Has Died · Meridian Globe