William Nicholson Author Biography
William Nicholson was born in 1948, and grew up in Sussex and
Gloucestershire. He was educated at Downside School and Christ's College,
Cambridge, and then joined BBC Television, where he worked as a documentary film
maker. There his ambition to write, directed first into novels, was channeled
into television drama. His plays for television include Shadowlands and Life
Story, both of which won the BAFTA Best Television Drama award in their year;
other award-winners were Sweet As You Are and The March. In 1988 he received the
Royal Television Society's Writer's Award. His first play, an adaptation of
Shadowlands for the stage, was Evening Standard Best Play of 1990, and went on
to a Tony-award winning run on Broadway. He was nominated...
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