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Edward Platt

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Born

in Chelmford, The United Kingdom

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Travel, Nonfiction

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I have written three books: Leadville: A Biography of the A40 (Picador 2000), which won a Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was short-listed for two other awards; The City of Abraham (Picador, 2012); and The Great Flood: Travels through a Sodden Landscape (Picador 2019), which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week. I am a contributing writer at the New Statesman, and a regular contributor to other newspapers and magazines. I was born in Essex in 1968, and grew up in Hampshire, Northumberland, and the Wirral. I have lived in London since 1992.

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