Nicholas Shakespeare
Novelist and journalist · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1957 · age 69
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL is a British novelist, biographer, broadcaster, and journalist. He was described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best English novelists of our time".
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He has written biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Ian Fleming, and his aunt in Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France. Shakespeare is also known for his charity work.
