Adam Nicolson
| Adam Nicolson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 September 1957 Bransgore, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| Period | 1981 to present |
| Genre | history, memoir, nature, place |
Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock, FRSL, FSA (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea.
He is noted for his books Sea Room (about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides); God's Secretaries: the making of the King James Bible; Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History (describing his attachment to his family home and his plans to transform the landscape there); and The Mighty Dead (US title:Why Homer Matters) exploring the epic Greek poems as a powerful voice both in his own life and in European culture.
Adam Nicolson is the son of writer Nigel Nicolson and his wife Philippa Tennyson-d'Eyncourt. He is the grandson of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, and great-grandson of Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He was educated at Summer Fields School,Eton College where he was a King's Scholar, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has worked as a journalist and columnist on the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph and writes regularly for National Geographic Magazine and Granta, where he is a contributing editor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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