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Simon Parkin

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About The Author

Simon Parkin is an award-winning British journalist and author. A contributing writer for The New Yorker, he has also written for The GuardianThe ObserverThe New York TimesHarper’s MagazineNew 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.

Books by Simon Parkin