William Nicholson (born 12 January 1948) is a
BAFTA-,
Oscar- and
Tony-nominated
British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.
Biography
Family
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).
