Graham Boynton is a British-Zimbabwean journalist, consultant, travel writer and editor.

Background

Boynton was born in the United Kingdom and raised in

Bulawayo Bulawayo (, ; ) is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council claimed it to be about ...

,Stubborn isolation
NewStatesman.com, 11 December 1998.

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where he was educated at

Peterhouse Boys' School Peterhouse Boys' School (or Peterhouse) is an independent, boarding high school for boys in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. The school was founded by Fred Snell in 1955 and is located on an estate that is shared with Calderwood Park, a conservati ...

and Christian Brothers College. He later graduated from the

University of Natal The University of Natal was a university in the former South African province Natal which later became KwaZulu-Natal. The University of Natal no longer exists as a distinct legal entity, as it was incorporated into the University of KwaZulu- ...

in neighbouring South Africa. Boynton began a career in journalism as a political reporter during the

Rhodesian Bush War The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, Second as well as the Zimbabwe War of Independence, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised country U.D.I. ...

. His reportage in South Africa led to the

apartheid Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...

government declaring him an 'undesirable alien,' after which they deported him. He subsequently established himself in London, writing for international magazines. In the mid-1980s, he was appointed editor of Business Traveller magazine. In 1988, he moved to New York City where he worked as a writer and editor for

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for ten years. He was an editor at

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and a contracted writer for '' Vanity Fair''. He also wrote for a number of other publications in America and the UK. In 1998, he returned to the UK to become the travel editor of the '' Daily'' and ''

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''. A year earlier, he published ''Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland'' about the end of white minority rule in South Africa. It was named as one of the '' Washington Post's'' Best Non Fiction Books of 1998. He was Group Travel Editor of the

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from 1998 to December 2011. He also regularly contributes pieces about

Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots ...

. Boynton's latest book, ''Wild: The Life of

Peter Beard Peter Hill Beard (January 22, 1938 – March 31 / April 19, 2020) was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk, Long Island and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals ...

: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover'', was published in October 2022.

Family

He is married to travel writer, Adriaane Pielou and they have two daughters together, Emma-Louise, who works in broadcast journalism, and actress

Lucy Boynton Lucy Boynton (born 17 January 1994) is an American-born English actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she made her professional debut as the young Beatrix Potter in ''Miss Potter'' (2006). She appeared in television productions ...

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External links

Graham Boynton @ Journalisted
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Family

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