Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Adam Edwards is a journalist with regular columns in the Daily Telegraph and Finaincial Times. He is a former New York correspondent for The Times and features editor of the London Evening Standard. In 1996 he was voted the British Society of Magazine Editors' editor of the year. His A Short History of the Wellington Boot was published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 2006.