Travel journalist and Author
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author of three critically acclaimed books, THE POET AND THE MURDERER (Dutton & Plume/Penguin Putnam USA, 2002; Fourth Estate UK), which William Styron called, “A gripping tale, done with great style and elegance…it held me in its spell from beginning to end,” and the novelized true story of his mother in World War II, THE VERY WHITE OF LOVE (HarperCollins, 2018), referred to by The Sunday Mirror as “A powerful and tender tale of love and war,” Worrall is a natural storyteller. My third book, STARCROSSED: A TRUE ROMEO AND JULIET STORY IN HITLER’S PARIS, was published by Kensington Citadel in 2023.
Simon Worrall was born in Wellington, England in 1951 and spent his childhood in Eritrea, Paris and Singapore. He speaks six languages, and is as comfortable being interviewed as he is interviewing. He has written for publications all over the world, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, The London Times and Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian, GQ, The New Yorker, Conde Nast Traveler, Playboy, Die Zeit, The Independent and the New Statesman. His feature, “Emily Dickinson Goes To Las Vegas,” was the first piece of nonfiction ever published by George Plimpton in The Paris Review.
PUBLICATIONS
STARCROSSED: A TRUE ROMEO AND JULIET STORY IN HITLER’S PARIS (Kensington Citadel) 2023
THE VERY WHITE OF LOVE, HarperCollins/Bourdon Czech Republic 2018/19
“Unforgettable!” —Woman Magazine
“A love story told in exquisitely poetic letters!” —The Daily Mail
THE POET AND THE MURDERER 2002
Dutton & Plume - Penguin Putnam (USA) / Fourth Estate (UK) / Emece (Spain, 2004) / Impedimenta (Spain, 2019)
“A terrific story, terrifically told” —New York Daily News
“Utterly enthralling” —Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman
“An astonishing tale!” —Financial Times
“Masterful” —Errol Morris
ARTICLES (Partial Listing)
The London Times /Sunday Times Magazine
Rudolf Hess January 2020
The Thirty Dollar Durer March 2023
In It for the Monet (art theft) December 2008
If... (Lindsay Anderson’s classic film) June 2008
Escape from New Orleans: Hurricane Katrina October 2005
Pilgrims: The Fanatics who Founded America August 2005
Country Road Take Me Home June 2005
When Daddy Came Home May 2005
My Set with Maria Sharapova July 2004
In the Kitchen with the Clintons January 1998
The Guardian Weekend Magazine
Redhead Project February 2024
Michael Mann Profile December 2023
Sold Down the River: Belize November 2002
The Man Who Pretended to be Emily Dickinson April 2000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Curator of Book Talk 2014-2018
Cheetahs December 2018
Catalonia November 2014
Scotland September 2014
Made in China June 2009
Patagonia January 2004
Battle of Trafalgar October 2002
Wales June 2001
London June 2000
The Telegraph Magazine (London)
Letters of Lost Love June 2018
The Paris Review
Emily Dickinson Goes to Las Vegas March 2000
GQ
To Catch an Art Thief July 2006
Esquire
Hot Chips: Computer Theft in Silicon Valley June 1998
Maxim
Art of the Heist 2009
Cybergate February 2010
Playboy
Our Pilgrim Fanatics February 2006
Reader’s Digest
Heist: The Case of the Missing Rembrandt December 2008
Smithsonian Magazine
On the Trail of the Pilgrim Fathers November 2006
Howzat, Bub: Cricket in America July 2006
Benjamin Franklin in London March 2005
Full Steam Ahead: A Railway Across the Outback January 2006
The Independent/Independent on Sunday Review (London)
Leonard Cohen June 2008
Arthur Miller at Home February 2005
Katharine Hepburn: The Last Interview July 2003
Hard Court: A Profile of Monica Seles June 1998
Descent into Hell: The Crash of TWA 800 July 1997
RADIO & TV APPEARANCES
TRT World—Roundtable, hosted by 2019
Multiple extensive BBC interviews, The Very White of Love 2018
BBC: The Very White of Love June 2018
PBS The Mormons 2007
BBC4/BBC2 The Man Who Forged America 2003
(1-hour documentary about The Poet and the Murderer)
Booknotes (USA) 2002
Open Book with David Aaronovitch 2002
NPR (USA)
Extensive interviews throughout 2002 across America about The Poet & The Murderer on NPR shows and commercial radio, including The Leonard Lopate Show, New York’s premiere literary radio program, and Wisconsin Public Radio’s To The Best of Our Knowledge
BBC - From Our Own Correspondent
Afo: The World’s Oldest Clove Tree 2013
In Wallace’s Wake 2012
Journey to Ki 2008
Return to China 2008
Shipwreck 2008
The Invisible Man (profile of art detective) 2006
Howzat, Bub! Cricket in America 2006
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