Ben Schott

Ben Schott ( born May 26, 1974 in London) is a British author, photographer, designer and librarian. He was born on 26 May 1974 as the son of a neurologist and a nurse in London. He graduated from the University College School, Hampstead, and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

Life

His first book bulkhead smorgasbord sold over two million copies worldwide. Schott even set the font and gave 50 copies privately in pressure, which he distributed to friends, before the publisher Bloomsbury Publishing bulkhead recognized skills and made the smorgasbord a worldwide bestseller. Schott has it collected the most curious facts about all areas of social life. In addition to the recipe for Bloody Mary and the name of Santa Claus ' reindeer, it also contains the little-known Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or any German Christmas number1 hits since 1969. As the successor volumes appeared bulkhead smorgasbord food and drink, bulkhead hodgepodge sports, games and idleness (English Schott 's Sporting, Gaming, & Idling Miscellany ) and Schott's Almanac 2007 (English Schott 's Almanac 2007). Every year in November appears bulkhead smorgasbord [ Year 1] (german Schott 's Almanac ). Current " bulkhead smorgasbord 2011". In addition, Ben Schott awards, together with the financial newspaper and his German publisher, the BloomsburyBerlin -Verlag, and since 2008 on the basis of the British Diagram Prize a prize for the oddest book title of the year German.