What is Philip Short?
{{BLP unsourced|date=October 2013}} '''Philip Short''' (born on 17 April 1945) is an [[English people|English]] [[journalist]]. He studied at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] between 1963 and 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Picture of a Life: Philip Short Explores the Biographer’s Craft|url=https://biographersinternational.org/news/picture-of-a-life-philip-short-explores-the-biographers-craft/|access-date=2022-03-13|website=Biographers International Organization|language=en}}</ref> After his graduation, he spent from 1967 to 1973 as a freelance journalist, first in [[Malawi]], then in [[Uganda]]. He then joined the [[BBC]] (British Broadcasting Corporation) as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and other places. He is an author of many books, such as biographies of [[Mao Zedong]], ''Mao: A Life'', and of [[Pol Pot]], ''Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare''. He now lives in France. ''Putin'' is published by Bodley Head in June 2022.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bradley|first=Jane|date=19 June 2022|title=Vladimir Putin is ‘no more of an aberration’ in Russia than Boris Johnson or Donald Trump, new biography claims|work=The Scotsman|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-is-no-more-of-an-aberration-in-russia-than-boris-johnson-or-donald-trump-new-biography-claims-3736039}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Putin: His Life and Times|work=Publishers Weekly|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781847923370}}</ref> == Reference == <references /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Short, Philip}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:English writers]] {{Authority control}} {{bio-stub}}