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William Nicholson (born 12 January 1948) is a BAFTA-, Oscar- and Tony-nominated British...

William Nicholson (born 12 January 1948) is a BAFTA-, Oscar- and Tony-nominated British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. A native of Lewes, Sussex, William Nicholson was raised in a Catholic family in Gloucestershire. By the time he reached his tenth birthday, he had decided to become a writer. He was educated at Downside School, Somerset, and Christ's College, Cambridge. He and his wife, Virginia, whom he married in 1988, have three children. Virginia Nicholson is also a writer who comes from a long line of celebrated nonconformists, including her grandmother Vanessa Bell and great-aunt Virginia Woolf. Her father, art historian Quentin Bell, had written an acclaimed biography of his aunt, Virginia Woolf in 1972, and she has chronicled the family in Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 (William Morrow and Company, 2002). For the first half of his career, Nicholson worked for the BBC as a director of documentary films, with over fifty titles to his credit, between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. He gained renown as a novelist and playwright when the first book of his popular Wind On Fire trilogy won the Blue Peter best book award and the Smarties Gold Award for