Simon Parkin

Simon Parkin is an award-winning British journalist and author. A contributing writer for The New Yorker , he has also written for The Guardian , The Observer , The New York Times , Harper's Magazine , New Statesmen , the BBC, and other publications. He is the author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives (winner of the Wingate Literary Prize), A Game of Birds and Wolves , and Death by Video Game , and his work has been featured in The Best American Nonrequired Reading . He was named a...See more

Simon Parkin is an award-winning British journalist and author. A contributing writer for The New Yorker , he has also written for The Guardian , The Observer , The New York Times , Harper's Magazine , New Statesmen , the BBC, and other publications. He is the author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives (winner of the Wingate Literary Prize), A Game of Birds and Wolves , and Death by Video Game , and his work has been featured in The Best American Nonrequired Reading . He was named a finalist in the Foreign Press Association Media Awards and is the recipient of two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. Parkin lives in West Sussex, England. See less