Ethnicity White Role Journalist Occupation Journalist Education University of Natal | Spouse(s) Adriaane Pielou Children Lucy Boynton Name Graham Boynton | |
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Notable credit(s) Author of Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland Books Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland: Dispatches From White Africa | ||
Graham boynton travel editor daily telegraph
Graham Boynton is a British journalist, consultant, travel writer and editor.
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Background
Boynton was born in Britain and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia where he was educated at Peterhouse Boys' School and Christian Brothers College. He later graduated from the University of Natal in neighbouring South Africa.
He began a career in journalism as a political reporter during the Rhodesian Bush War. His reportage in South Africa led to the apartheid government declaring him an 'undesirable alien' and they subsequently deported him. He subsequently established himself in London, writing for international magazines. In the mid eighties he was appointed editor of Business Traveller magazine. In 1988 he moved to New York City where he worked as a writer and editor for Condé Nast Publications for ten years. He was an editor at Condé Nast Traveler and a contracted writer for Vanity Fair. He also wrote for a number of other publications in America and the UK.
In 1998 he returned to Britain to become the travel editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. A year earlier he published Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland about the end of white rule in South Africa. It was named as one of the Washington Post's Best Non Fiction Books of 1998. He was Group Travel Editor of the Telegraph Media Group from 1998 to December 2011.
He also regularly contributes pieces about Zimbabwe.
Family
He is married to the travel writer, Adriaane Pielou and they have two children together, Emma-Louise, who works in broadcast journalism, and the actress Lucy Boynton.