About the Author

Adam Nicolson’s books include God’s Secretaries, Sea Room, Sissinghurst, and Restoration. He has made television and radio series on diverse subjects, from the King James Bible to Homer to the untold story of Britain’s twentieth-century whalers, and has written for the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Daily Telegraph. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Nicolson counts the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. H. Heinemann Prize, and the British Topography Prize among his honors. He lives on a farm in Sussex, England, with his wife and their five grown children.