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William Nicholson. Writer: Les Misérables. William Nicholson was born in 1948 in England, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for Les Misérables (2012), Gladiator (2000) and Unbroken (2014). He has been married to Virginia Nicholson since 1988. They have three children.
William Nicholson is a screenwriter, playwright, television writer, and novelist. In addition to his Academy Award–nominated screenplays for Shadowlands and Gladiator, he is the author of Motherland; several young adult and fantasy novels; and a sequence of contemporary adult novels set in England. He lives in Sussex, England.
William Nicholson is a British playwright, screenwriter and novelist deemed one of the biggest cultural icons of the UK. His father was a specialist in tropical medicine who worked to eradicate leprosy in Nigeria while his mother was the daughter of a South African Jew that went to Somerville, where she graduated with a First class in English.
May 15, 2020 · I’m a useless blog writer, leaving huge gaps between posts, but I’m still here and still working. Currently the two projects occupying me are ‘Cryptoqueen’, an 8-part TV series for Netflix based on Jamie Bartlett’s brilliant BBC podcast ‘The Missing Cryptoqueen’; and ‘A Little Madness’, also for Netflix, based on Horatio Clare’s memoir of his own descent into madness, ‘Heavy Light’.
William Nicholson 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 ...
The writer Marguerite Steen (1894-1975) was Nicholson’s companion from 1935 until his death. Nicholson died at Blewbury, Berkshire, on 16 May 1949 and was buried at Newark. Sophie Bowness. Biography of British 20th Century painter, illustrator and graphic artist Sir William Nicholson. Official website of the William Nicholson Trust.
William Nicholson is best known as a writer of plays and screenplays, including Shadowlands and Gladiator. His first adult novel, The Society of Others , was published in January 2005, and his second, The Trial of True Love , will be published in May 2006.
