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Adam Nicolson

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British author (born 1957)
For the Canadian football player, seeAdam Nicolson (Canadian football).


The Lord Carnock

Born (1957-09-12)12 September 1957 (age 67)
Bransgore, England
OccupationWriter
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge
Period1981 to present
GenreHistory, memoir, nature, place
SpouseOlivia Fane (divorced)
Children5
RelativesNigel Nicolson (father)
Philippa née Tennyson-d'Eyncourt (mother)
Vita Sackville-West (grandmother)

Adam Nicolson,FSA, FSA Scot, FRSL (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. He is also the5th Baron Carnock, but does not use the title.

He is noted for his booksSea Room (about theShiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in theHebrides);God's Secretaries: The Making of theKing James Bible;The Mighty Dead (US title:Why Homer Matters) exploring the epic Greek poems;The Seabird's Cry about the disaster afflicting the world's seabirds;The Making of Poetry on the Romantic Revolution in England in the 1790s; andLife Between the Tides, a boundary-crossing account of the tides in human and animal life.

Biography

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Adam Nicolson is the son of writerNigel Nicolson and his wife Philippa Tennyson-d'Eyncourt. He is the grandson of the writersVita Sackville-West and SirHarold Nicolson, and great-grandson ofSir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt andArthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He was educated atEaton House,Summer Fields School,[1]Eton College where he was aKing's Scholar, andMagdalene College, Cambridge. He has worked as a journalist and columnist on theSunday Times, theSunday Telegraph, theDaily Telegraph,National Geographic Magazine andGranta, where he is a contributing editor. He is a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Literature, theSociety of Antiquaries and theSociety of Antiquaries of Scotland.

He has made several television series (with Keo Films) and radio series (with Tim Dee, the writer and radio producer) on a variety of subjects including the King James Bible, 17th-century literacy, Crete, Homer, the idea of Arcadia, the untold story of Britain's 20th-century whalers and the future of Atlantic seabirds.

Between 2005 and 2009, in partnership with theNational Trust, Nicolson led a project which transformed the 260 acres (110 ha) surrounding the house and garden atSissinghurst into a productive mixed farm, growing meat, fruit, cereals and vegetables for the National Trust restaurant.[2] And between 2012 and 2017, together with theRSPB, theEU andSNH, Nicolson and his son Tom were partners in a project to eradicate invasive predators from the Shiant Isles, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In March 2018, the islands were declared rat-free.[3]

In December 2008 he succeeded his cousinDavid Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock, as 5thBaron Carnock but he does not use the title.[4]

Personal life

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Nicolson met his first wife, the writer Olivia Fane, when he was a student at Cambridge University. They married in 1982, and had sons Thomas (born 1984); William (born 1986); and Ben (born 1988).[citation needed] They were divorced in 1992 and since then he has been married to the writer and gardenerSarah Raven, with whom he has two daughters: Rosie (born 1993); Molly (born 1996). The family live at Perch Hill Farm[5] in Sussex.

Awards and recognition

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Books

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  • The National Trust Book of Long Walks (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981)
  • Long Walks in France (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983)
  • Frontiers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985)
  • Wetland (Michael Joseph, 1987)
  • Two Roads to Dodge City (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) with Nigel Nicolson
  • Prospects of England: Two Thousand Years Seen Through Twelve English Towns (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989) with Peter Morter
  • On Foot: Guided Walks in England, France, and the United States (Weidenfeld/Harmony, 1990)
  • Restoration: Rebuilding of Windsor Castle (Michael Joseph, 1997)
  • Regeneration: The Story of the Dome (HarperCollins, 1999)
  • Perch Hill: A New Life (Constable, 2000)
  • Mrs Kipling: The Hated Wife (Short Books, 2001)
  • Sea Room (HarperCollins, 2001; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002)
  • Power and Glory: The Making of the King James Bible (US title:God's Secretaries) (HarperCollins, 2003)(2011 reissued in UK asWhen God Spoke English)
  • Seamanship (HarperCollins, 2004)
  • Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero (US title:Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar) (HarperCollins, 2005)
  • Earls of Paradise (US title:Quarrel with the King) (HarperCollins, 2008)
  • Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (HarperCollins, 2008; US revised edition Viking, 2010)
  • Arcadia: The Dream of Perfection in Renaissance England (a revised paperback edition ofEarls of Paradise) (HarperCollins, 2009)
  • The Smell of Summer Grass (an updated edition ofPerch Hill) (HarperCollins, 2011)
  • The Gentry: Stories of the English (HarperCollins, 2011)
  • The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters (US title Henry Holt:Why Homer Matters) (HarperCollins, 2014)
  • The Seabird's Cry: The Life and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers (HarperCollins, 2017) (US Henry Holt:The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers (2018))
  • The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their Year of Marvels (HarperCollins, 2019; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)
  • The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides (HarperCollins, 2021; Farrar, Straus and Giroux,Life Between the Tides 2022)
  • How to Be: Life Lessons From the Early Greeks (HarperCollins 2023; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Television

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  • Atlantic Britain Channel 4, 2004
  • Sissinghurst BBC 4, 2009
  • When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible BBC 4, 2011
  • The Century That Wrote Itself BBC 4, 2013
  • Britain's Whale Hunters BBC 4, 2014
  • The Last Seabird Summer? BBC 4, 2016

Radio

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  • Homer's Landscapes 3 x 45 mins, BBC Radio 3, 2008
  • A Cretan Spring 5 x 15 mins, with Sarah Raven, BBC Radio 3, 2009
  • Dark Arcadias 2 x 45 mins, BBC Radio 3, 2011

References

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  1. ^Adam Nicolson.Prepared for Anything. The Times Magazine, 25 June 1994. pages 24–30.
  2. ^Sunday Times, 8 February 2009[dead link‍]
  3. ^BBC: Shiant Islands in the Minch declared rat-free
  4. ^rexfeatures.com Rex Features 31 January 2009, Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock at home at Sissinghurst Castle
  5. ^Perch Hill Farm

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