Giles Quintin Sykes Whittell (born in March 1966) is an English author and journalist who has worked for ''

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'' as Correspondent in Russia and the United States. Whittell was educated at

Sherborne School Sherborne School is a full-boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18 located beside Sherborne Abbey in the Dorset town of Sherborne. The school has been in continuous operation on the same site for over 1,300 years. It was founded in 705 AD by Ald ...

and

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(B.A. 1988). He has worked for ''The Times'' of

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since 1993, first as

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Correspondent from 1993 to 1999 and later as

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Correspondent (1999–2001) and

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Bureau Chief (2009–2011). As of 2019 he is the paper's chief leader writer (editorial writer). His books include ''Lambada Country'' (1992), ''Extreme Continental'' (1994), ''Spitfire Women of World War II'' (2007) and '' Bridge of Spies'', a ''New York Times'' bestselling account of the 1962 spy swap of

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for

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and

Frederic Pryor Frederic LeRoy Pryor (April 23, 1933 – September 2, 2019)Richard Sandomir ''New York Times'' (September 11, 2019). was an American economist. While studying in Berlin during the partition of the city in 1961, he was imprisoned in East Germa ...

. The book was published in the US in 2010 and the

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in 2011. His latest book, ''Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration'', was published by Atria Books in 2019.

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