Philip Short is a British journalist and author. He was born in Bristol on 17 April 1945. He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduation, he spent 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 Mao Zedong, Mao: A Life, Pol Pot, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, and Fran�ois Mitterrand, A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of Fran�ois Mitterrand. He presented a TV documentary on Mao Zedong entitled "Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed" on the UK terrestrial station Five in May 2007. [More at Wikipedia]

April 17th, 1945 in Bristol (Age 79)