The bestselling author of the nonfiction books The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, The Men Who United the States, and Atlantic, Simon Winchester evokes “vivid, valuable” (Wall Street Journal) images of legendary and little-known pockets of personality, history, and science. Formerly an Oxford-trained field geologist in Uganda and a war correspondent for The Guardian and The Sunday Times, Winchester earned Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire “for services to journalism and literature” in 2006. In addition to his two dozen books, Winchester’s writing has appeared in National Geographic and Smithsonian magazine. Exploring commerce, geography, and implications for the future, Pacific is a biography of the world’s largest ocean. 

Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture