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Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960)〔"(Simon Garfield, Esq )", Debrett's, retrieved 6 July 2011〕 is a British journalist and non-fiction author. He was educated at the independent University College School in Hampstead, London, and the London School of Economics, where he was executive editor of ''The Beaver''. ==Biography== Garfield was born in London in 1960.〔"(Simon Garfield )", Faber & Faber, retrieved 6 July 2011〕 He won the Guardian/NUS 'Student Journalist of the Year' award in 1981, and the same year he became a sub-editor at the ''Radio Times''.〔 He wrote scripts for BBC radio documentaries in the early 1980s.〔 He also wrote for ''Time Out'' magazine, acting as editor from 1988 to 1989.〔 He has written for newspapers such as ''The Independent'', the ''Independent on Sunday'', and ''The Observer'', and was named Mind Journalist of the Year in 2005.〔 He is the author of several books including ''Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry'', the Somerset Maugham Prize-winning ''The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS'', ''The Wrestling'', ''The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1'', and ''Mauve''.〔 In 2010 his book ''Just My Type'' was published, exploring the history of typographic fonts.〔Gompertz, Will (2010) "(Gomp/arts: Simon Garfield: A man of letters )", BBC, 18 October 2010, retrieved 6 July 2011〕〔Glancey, Jonathan (2010) "(Just My Type by Simon Garfield and Manuale Tipographico by Giambattista Bodoni – review )", ''The Guardian'', 4 December 2010, retrieved 6 July 2011〕 Garfield appeared on 25 February 2013 episode of ''The Colbert Report'' to discuss why he wrote ''On the Map''. Garfield's book ''To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence'' is the inspiration behind the charity event ''Letters Live''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon Garfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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