Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel write about science and scientific discoveries in a way that makes their books easy to understand and fascinating to read. They also capture the eccentric...

The writer most like Simon Winchester in style is Mark Kurlansky. While Winchester tends to focus more on people or geological events, both authors use the same zoom technique and tone....

Both noted for detail-rich, atmospheric historical true crime narratives, Paul Collins and Simon Winchester are warmly nostalgic, intellectual, and funny travel memoirists. Collins...

Neither of these historical nonfiction writers specializes in a particular time or place, instead examining a wide range of events -- anywhere from 11th century Crusaders (Piers Paul...

Erik Larson is well known in the field of narrative nonfiction, specifically in the areas of reporting, history, and true crime. His detailed descriptions and the fascinating people...

These narrative nonfiction writers are known for taking "deep dives" into remarkable events, lives, and topics that history has not yet fully illuminated. Charlotte Gray focuses her...

Jared M. Diamond is an evolutionary biologist who has described his work as an attempt to explain the broad pattern of human history. While his tone is not always as celebratory as...

John McPhee and Simon Winchester bridge the gap between the specialist and the average reader with clear, jargon-free prose. They often focus on geology and natural resources, but with...

Both Simon Winchester and Susan Orlean take unfamiliar, eccentric, and varied topics and turn them into compelling page-turners. As journalists, they employ clear prose and describe...

These authors' works have the subjects "natural disasters" and "thunderstorms."

These authors' works have the appeal factors well-researched, and they have the genre "nonfiction that reads like fiction"; and the subjects "natural disasters," "floods," and "survival...

These authors' works have the subjects "natural disasters," "severe storms," and "meteorology."