Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British author,[1] known for his books The Cloudspotter's Guide and The Wavewatcher's Companion.
Early life and education
Pretor-Pinney is son of Anthony Robert Edmund Pretor-Pinney and Laura Uppercu, daughter of George Winthrop Haight, of Manhattan, observer for the American Bar Association and a specialist in international law.[2] The Pretor-Pinney family were landowners at Somerton, Somerset since the 1800s, descendants of the sugar merchant and Mayor of Bristol Charles Pinney; Anthony Pretor-Pinney had Somerton Erleigh, named for the family's former house on a different part of the estate, built in 1972–3.[3][4]
Pretor-Pinney attended Westminster School, the University of Oxford, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Career
He co-founded the magazine The Idler and founded the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2004.[5] He grew up in West London and now also lives in Somerton, Somerset.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Awards and honours
- 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, winner, The Wavewatcher's Companion[6]
Works
- The Cloudspotter's Guide (2006)[1]
- The Cloud Collector's Handbook (2006)
- A Pig with Six Legs and Other Clouds (2007)
- The Wavewatcher's Companion (2010)[7][8]
- The Ukulele Handbook (September 2013; co-written with Tom Hodgkinson)
- A Cloud A Day (2019)
Television appearances
References
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