Philip Short, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Philip Short

British journalist and author

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1945

Place of Birth: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, biographer, journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Philip Short (born 17 April 1945) is a British journalist and author. He was born in Bristol on 17 April 1945.
He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge.
After graduation, he spent from 1967 to 1973 as a freelance journalist, first in Malawi, then in Uganda.
He then joined the BBC as a foreign correspondent.
He worked there for 25 years.
He is the author of several books, among them the biographies of Mao Zedong, Mao: A Life published in 1999, Mao: The Man Who Made China in 2017, Pol Pot, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, and François Mitterrand, A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand. He presented a TV documentary on Mao Zedong entitled "Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed" on the UK terrestrial station Five in May 2007.