Joe Bennett
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Joe Bennett was brought up near Brighton, England, went to Brighton Grammar School and Cambridge University, taught English in a few safe countries, then went to New Zealand for a year in 1987 and somehow stayed. In 1998 he gave up teaching to become a newspaper columnist and travel writer. He's been New Zealand's Columnist of the Year three times, has published a dozen collections of his columns in NZ and three worldwide, and has written four travel books published by Simon and Schuster UK. His 'Where Underpants Come From', which traces the constituents of a pair of cheap Chinese-made underpants back to source, was the Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year 2009, and is being translated into Korean, Greek and Chinese. The author photo shows not only, and perhaps regrettably, the author but also the underpants in question and what may have been the field in remote Xinjiang where the… Read more This biography was provided by the author or their representative.
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