Graham Boynton
Graham Boynton | |
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Born | United Kingdom |
Occupation | Journalist |
Notable credit(s) | Author of Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland |
Spouse(s) | Adriaane Pielou |
Children | Emma Louise Boynton and Lucy Boynton |
Graham Boynton is a British journalist, consultant, travel writer and editor.
Background[]
Boynton was born in the United Kingdom and raised in Bulawayo,[1] Rhodesia where he was educated at Peterhouse Boys' School and Christian Brothers College. He later graduated from the University of Natal in neighbouring South Africa.
Boynton began a career in journalism as a political reporter during the Rhodesian Bush War. His reportage in South Africa led to the apartheid government declaring him an 'undesirable alien' and they subsequently deported him.[1] 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 Condé Nast Publications for ten years. He was an editor at Condé Nast Traveler and a contracted writer for Vanity Fair.[2] 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 Sunday Telegraph. A year earlier, he published Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland about the end of white minority rule in South Africa.[3] It was named as one of the Washington Post's Best Non Fiction Books of 1998.[2] He was Group Travel Editor of the Telegraph Media Group from 1998 to December 2011.
He also regularly contributes pieces about Zimbabwe.[4][5][6]
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.[2][7]
See also[]
- Whites in Zimbabwe
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Stubborn isolation, NewStatesman.com, 11 December 1998.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Editor Ultratravel and Group Travel Editor, Telegraph Media Group International Luxury Travel Market. Retrieved on 1 January 2011
- ^ African Sunset Business Week. 15 September 1997
- ^ Ian Smith has sadly been proved right The Telegraph. 22 November 2007
- ^ "Telegraph Christmas Appeal: we must not forget Zimbabwe", Telegraph.co.uk, 27 November 2010.
- ^ Zimbabwe tourism: should we go back?, Telegraph.co.uk, 24 September 2010.
- ^ "My Lucy, the film star", Telegraph.co.uk, 30 December 2006.
External links[]
- Rhodesian writers
- British expatriates in Zimbabwe
- British expatriates in South Africa
- British writers
- British journalists
- British non-fiction writers
- Alumni of Peterhouse Boys' School
- Alumni of Christian Brothers College, Bulawayo
- University of Natal alumni
- People from Bulawayo
- Living people
- White Rhodesian people