Philip Short

Philip Short (born 17 April 1945) is a British journalist and author.

For the former Louisiana state senator, see Phil Short. For the Irish chess player, see Philip Short (chess player).

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.[1] 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.

References
  1. https://www.davidhigham.co.uk/authors-dh/philip-short/


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