Graham Boynton | |
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Born | United Kingdom |
Occupation | Journalist |
Notable credit | Author of Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland |
Spouse | Adriaane Pielou |
Children | Emma Louise Boynton and Lucy Boynton |
Graham Boynton is a British-Zimbabwean journalist, consultant, travel writer and editor.
Boynton was born in the United Kingdom and raised in Bulawayo, [1] Rhodesia where he was educated at Peterhouse Boys' School and Christian Brothers College. He later graduated from the University of Natal in neighbouring South Africa.
Boynton began a career in journalism as a political reporter during the Rhodesian Bush War. His reportage in South Africa led to the apartheid government declaring him an 'undesirable alien,' after which they deported him. [1] He subsequently established himself in London, writing for international magazines. In the mid-1980s, he was appointed editor of Business Traveller magazine. In 1988, he moved to New York City where he worked as a writer and editor for Condé Nast Publications for ten years. He was an editor at Condé Nast Traveler and a contracted writer for Vanity Fair. [2] He also wrote for a number of other publications in America and the UK.
In 1998, he returned to the UK to become the travel editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. A year earlier, he published Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland about the end of white minority rule in South Africa. [3] It was named as one of the Washington Post's Best Non Fiction Books of 1998. [2] He was Group Travel Editor of the Telegraph Media Group from 1998 to December 2011.
He also regularly contributes pieces about Zimbabwe. [4] [5] [6]
Boynton's latest book, Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover, was published in October 2022. [7]
He is married to travel writer, Adriaane Pielou and they have two daughters together, Emma-Louise, who works in broadcast journalism, and actress Lucy Boynton. [2] [8]