Intelligent entertainment at a high level, timedperfectly for out post-modern, deconstructed, andoverall scatterbrained time of age.” Ben Schott was born in North London, England, the son of a neurologist and a nurse. He has one brother, also now a neurologist. He went to school at University College School, Hampstead.

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Ben Schott (born 26 May 1974) is a British writer, photographer, and author of the Schott's Miscellanies and Schott's Almanac series. Schott publishes a bespoke Miscellany Diary with the society printers Smythson of Bond Street, and a desk-pad diary with Workman.

As a photographerBen worked with The Independent, The Times, The Sunday Times, Reader’s Digest, and Sunday Business, amongst many others, and has photographed a wealth of celebrities from Hugh Grant and Tony Blair, to Gordon Brown and Enoch Powell.

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Jeffries, Stuart (6 November 2002). "The bare facts". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 20 April 2010. The four books in the Miscellanytrilogy have been translated into 21 languages (including Braille), and have sold over 2.5 million copies. Unusually, Ben designs and typesets virtually all of his work –as well offering design and narrative consultancyto a range of clients. Schott's Original Miscellany was published with little fanfare in 2002, but after an article in the Guardian, in which the book was described as the "publishing sensation of the year", sales increased, and within weeks Schott's Original Miscellany was at No. 1. Robert McCrum said of the book in The Observer: "Originality is like charisma. It's hard to define, but we know it when we find it ... Schott's Original Miscellany is, without doubt, the oldest, and possibly merriest title you will come across in a long day's march through the shimmering desert of contemporary publishing". [6] On my way to pitch this Christmas card idea to a large advertising agency (WPP), I was waylaid by an old friend (Martin) who persuaded me to turn the card into a book.

On the advice of another friend (Elinor), I sent one of these books to Nigel Newton, the head of Bloomsbury Publishing (the Harry Potter people). Nigel loved it, a contract was signed, and the book was in the shops just in time for Christmas 2002. A crazy and brilliant rabble, with encyclopaedic andmaniacal precision . . . vital and insignificant.”

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He is married to the award-winning travel editor, Pavia Rosati; lives and works in London; and finds writing in the third-person awkward. Somehow Mr Schott turns a collection of trivia intoa window on the world that is hilarious, puzzling, and inspiring.” Schott went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read Social and Political Sciences. He took a double first in 1996. [1] For two years after the publication of the first Miscellany, Schott wrote a weekly miscellany column for The Daily Telegraph, and also produced special miscellany features on Christmas and the Olympics. For over a year he wrote a regular travel miscellany column for the UK edition of Condé Nast Traveler magazine. In 2005 and 2006 the Guardian featured special editions of G2 featuring extracts from Schott's Almanac.Wendy: I’m sure you could put out a Schott’s Miscellany about the place. Victor: Schott’s? Wendy: It’s like a farmer’s almanac for non-farm stuff… Schott’s Original Miscellanybegan life as a Christmas card. While working as a freelance photographer, I sent my clients an annual festive card . . . to remind them that I was alive. Ben has written for many of the great British and American titles including The Times, The Telegraph, The New York Times, The Spectator, Private Eye, Bloomberg Opinionand Playboy. After Cambridge, Schott got a job at the London advertising agency J. Walter Thompson where he was an account manager on the Nestlé Rowntree account working on Smarties, Kit Kat and Polo. After only four months he resigned to become a freelance photographer. Ben was born in London in 1974. He was educated at University College School, Hampstead, and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge where he read Social & Political Sciences. He graduated in 1996, taking a double First.