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Chris Schüler is a freelance writer, journalist and editor specialising in literature, travel and the arts. He is the author of Mapping the World, a history of cartography illustrated from the collections of the Royal Geographical Society. His survey of urban cartography, Mapping the City, published in French as La Ville, will appear in Autumn 2012.
His articles have appeared in The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Financial Times, The Tablet, The New Statesman and other publications.
After taking a degree in English at Oxford University, he embarked on a career in publishing and journalism. He has edited many travel guides, thematic atlases, and other illustrated non-fiction books, and has served on the editorial staff of The Independent and the Rough Guides. His writing and editing has focused on subjects including the history, politics and culture of Central and Eastern Europe, heritage and the built environment, archaeology, classical music and contemporary visual art.
Chris Schüler is also the co-author of the US bestseller The Traveler's Atlas, and his photographs of ancient places have appeared in books published by Penguin and Time-Life. He holds diplomas in Field Archaeology (Birkbeck College) and German (the Open University), and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Numismatic Society.
For the past three years he has served on the reading panel for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and in 2008 he was elected chairman of the Authors' Club.
