Simon Garfield





Simon Garfield

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January 01, 1960 in London, The United Kingdom

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Simon Garfield 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 the Executive Editor of The Beaver.

His published books include:

Mini-The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car

Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke

The Error World

Private Battles

We are at War

Our Hidden Lives

The Last Journey of William Huskisson

Mauve

The Nation's Favourite

The Wrestling

The End of Innocence

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

He also regularly writes for The Observer newspaper.


Average rating: 3.65 · 3,458 ratings · 555 reviews · 15 distinct works
Just My Type: A Book About ...
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 2,912 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
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Mauve: How One Man Invented...
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 295 ratings6 editions
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Our Hidden Lives: The Remar...
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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We Are at War: The Diaries ...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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The Error World: An Affair ...
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 29 ratings5 editions
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Private Battles: Our Intima...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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The Nation's Favourite
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings2 editions
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The Last Journey Of William...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings2 editions
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The Wrestling
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings2 editions
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The End Of Innocence: Brita...
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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“These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road, although to do so would be to deny oneself one of the great pleasures in life. The first book ever printed in Europe - heavy, luxurious, pungent and creaky - does not read particularly well on an iPhone.”
Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

“One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker’s Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, ‘Thou shalt commit adultery.”
Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

“...the book typographer's job was building a window between the reader inside a room and that landscape which is the author's words. He may put up a stained glass window of marvelous beauty, but a failure as a window; that is he may use some rich superb type like text gothic that is something to be look at, not through.”
Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts



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