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Stephen Brook 
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Stephen Brook was born in London and studied English literature and philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge.

After 15 years as an editor in the U.S. and England, he became a freelance writer in 1982. Stephen has written many travel books, including the best-selling New York Days, New York Nights, Honkytonk Gelato; The Double Eagle; and L.A. Lore. He has also written guidebooks to the Dordogne, Prague, Vienna, the Veneto and the Czech Republic.

Stephen’s books on wine include Liquid Gold: Dessert Wines of the World, Sauternes, Pauillac, A Century of Wine, The Wines of California, Bordeaux: People, Power and Politics, and The Wines of Germany.

He is a contributing editor to Decanter, and was for many years a regular contributor to The Times and Vogue. In 2003, Stephen completely revised and updated Hugh Johnson's Wine Companion. Over the past fifteen years he has won major awards for wine writing in Britain, the U.S., and Australia.


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