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 Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Statesmen (UK), the BBC, and other publications. He is the author of The Forbidden Garden (finalist for the Orwell Prize), 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 a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the recipient of two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. Parkin lives in West Sussex, England.

Books by Simon Parkin

The Forbidden Garden

The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

By Simon Parkin
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Scientific American, and The Economist

The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who made “the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at t...
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives

A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp

By Simon Parkin
The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellect...
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