Patrick symmes biography
- I cover insurgencies, global environmental problems, travel, and the geopolitical fault lines that underlie them.
- Patrick Symmes writes for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Harpers, Outside, and GQ magazines.
- Symmes, Patrick 1964-PERSONAL:Born July 12, 1964, in New Haven, CT; son of David (a research scientist) and Jean (a psychologist) Symmes.
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HELLO. I am a writer, journalist and teacher.
In Band-i-Amir, Afghanistan (c. Seamus Murphy)
I cover insurgencies, global environmental problems, travel, and the geopolitical fault lines that underlie them all, for magazines like Harper’s, Outside, and Condé Nast Traveler.
I specialize in Latin America, particularly Cuba, but have worked from Patagonia to Phnom Penh, and Cape Town to Kazakhstan. I am the author of The Boys from Dolores (2007), about what happened to Fidel Castro’s own schoolmates. It was named to the New York Times “Ten Best” list.
Most Recently…
In the July issue of Condé Nast UK you’ll find my article on Agritourism in the Pacific Northwest. Travel to where the finest organic food is grown.
In April I appeared as a guest of Neil Conan’s on the NPR program Fresh Air to discuss the experience of researching the article “A Wild Country Grows in South Sudan,” which appears in the April ’13 issue of Outside Magazine.
Listen to the podcast here – “South Sudan: A Warn-Torn Nation Transforms To Tourist Destination.”
These are some of my •
“The Day Fidel Died,” by Patrick Symmes, is published by Vintage Shorts on Oct. 31 as an e-book.
“The Day Fidel Died” is a sweeping history of Cuba under Fidel Castro, told through a single year, the 2016 of Obama’s unprecedented visit, a Rolling Stones tour of Havana, and the Maximum Leader’s own stuttering funeral. Delving into the origin stories of the Castro brothers and ranging forward to Raul’s awkward eulogy, the book interrogates the 90-year legacy of Fidel, and calculates which forces will continue to shape Cuba long after he is gone. Braided with fresh reporting from Obama’s cobblestone tour of Havana and two revealing journeys, one on foot and one by broken-down bus, the book offers deep testimony to the economic reforms changing even far corners of the island, and also police repression continuing in the alleys of Havana. Ultimately, “The Day Fidel Died” is about the strength of Cubans and their robust defense of freedoms.
—The Day Fidel Died
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Symmes, Patrick 1964-
PERSONAL:
Born July 12, 1964, in New Haven, CT; son of David (a research scientist) and Jean (a psychologist) Symmes. Education: Wesleyan University, B.A.
ADDRESSES:
Home—New York, NY. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Writer, contributing editor and freelance foreign correspondent. Worked at various newspapers and news outlets.
WRITINGS:
NONFICTION
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend, Vintage (New York, NY), 2000.
The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 2007.
Contributing editor to Harper's magazine. Contributor to periodicals, including Outside, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, New York, and Wired.
SIDELIGHTS:
Patrick Symmes is a freelance journalist who has published two books. The first, Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend, is an account of the author's travels through South America on a motorcycle. He was following a route taken by the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara in 1952. Guevara was a young m
“The Day Fidel Died,” by Patrick Symmes, is published by Vintage Shorts on Oct. 31 as an e-book.
“The Day Fidel Died” is a sweeping history of Cuba under Fidel Castro, told through a single year, the 2016 of Obama’s unprecedented visit, a Rolling Stones tour of Havana, and the Maximum Leader’s own stuttering funeral. Delving into the origin stories of the Castro brothers and ranging forward to Raul’s awkward eulogy, the book interrogates the 90-year legacy of Fidel, and calculates which forces will continue to shape Cuba long after he is gone. Braided with fresh reporting from Obama’s cobblestone tour of Havana and two revealing journeys, one on foot and one by broken-down bus, the book offers deep testimony to the economic reforms changing even far corners of the island, and also police repression continuing in the alleys of Havana. Ultimately, “The Day Fidel Died” is about the strength of Cubans and their robust defense of freedoms.
—The Day Fidel Died
Symmes, Patrick 1964-
PERSONAL:
Born July 12, 1964, in New Haven, CT; son of David (a research scientist) and Jean (a psychologist) Symmes. Education: Wesleyan University, B.A.
ADDRESSES:
Home—New York, NY. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Writer, contributing editor and freelance foreign correspondent. Worked at various newspapers and news outlets.
WRITINGS:
NONFICTION
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend, Vintage (New York, NY), 2000.
The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 2007.
Contributing editor to Harper's magazine. Contributor to periodicals, including Outside, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, New York, and Wired.
SIDELIGHTS:
Patrick Symmes is a freelance journalist who has published two books. The first, Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend, is an account of the author's travels through South America on a motorcycle. He was following a route taken by the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara in 1952. Guevara was a young m
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