Toby Lester

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Toby Lester (born November 2, 1964 ) is an American journalist and author .

Life

Lester was born into a family of writers. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1987 with a degree in English and French . He then worked at the United Nations in Palestine in the field of refugee aid, later responsible for the Peace Corps for Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union . In Yemen he worked for the Peace Corps as an English teacher in a village school in the Yemeni mountains.

From 1995 to 2005 Lester worked in various areas of the editorial team of the American magazine The Atlantic and wrote for several other magazines and newspapers at the same time. His areas of interest included the reconstruction of ancient Greek music , the Koran and the change in the alphabets in Azerbaijan after the change in 1990 from the Cyrillic alphabet to the adapted Latin alphabet .

Lester lives near Boston , Massachusetts with wife and three daughters .

Publications

  • The Fourth Part of the World. The Race to the End of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name . Free Press, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-3531-7 .
    • German, translated by Klaus Binder and Bernd Leineweber: The fourth continent. How a map changed the world . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0732-2 .
  • Da Vinci 's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image . Free Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4391-8923-8 .
    • The symmetry of the world: Leonardo da Vinci and the secret of his most famous drawing , Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8270-1104-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the earthly paradise was still on the edge of the world in FAZ of October 18, 2011, page 30
personal data
SURNAME Lester, Toby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 2nd, 1964