The Lord Carnock | |
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| Born | 12 September 1957 Bransgore, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| Period | 1981 to present |
| Genre | History, memoir, nature, place |
| Spouse | Olivia Fane (divorced) |
| Children | 5 |
| Relatives | Nigel 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 the 5th Baron Carnock, but does not use the title.
He is noted for his books Sea Room (about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides); God's Secretaries: The Making of the King 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; and Life Between the Tides, a boundary-crossing account of the tides in human and animal life.