Philip Short

Philip Short is a British journalist and author.

Early life and education

Short was born in Bristol. He was educated at Sherborne School, a boarding public school for boys, in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, followed by Queens' College, Cambridge.

Life and career

After graduation, Short spent the years 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 Hastings Banda, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, François Mitterrand, and Vladimir Putin.
Short presented a TV documentary on Mao Zedong entitled Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed on the UK terrestrial station Five in May 2007.