|  Simon Winchester, author, journalist, and broadcaster, has worked as a foreign correspondent for most of his career. His work has taken him to Belfast, Washington, DC, New Delhi, New York, London, and Hong Kong, where he covered such stories as the Ulster crisis, the creation of Bangladesh, the fall of President Marcos, the Watergate affair, the Jonestown Massacre, and assassination of Egypt's President Sadat, the death and cremation of Pol Pot and, in 1982, the Falklands War. During this conflict he was arrested and spent three months in prison in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, on spying charges.
 Mr. Winchester is the author of several books, including the best-selling The Professor and the Madman, which is to be made into a major film by the distinguished French director Luc Besson; The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans, which recounts his journey from Austria to Turkey during the 1999 Kosovo Crisis; and the best-selling The Map that Changed the World, about the nineteenth century geologist William Smith. Simon's latest book, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 was published in October, 2005.
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