Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. 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. His most recent book is How to Be, an exploration of the world of the first Greek thinkers.

He has worked as a journalist and columnist on the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, National Geographic Magazine and Granta, where he is a contributing editor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He has made several television series (with Keo Films) and radio series (with Tim Dee, the writer and radio producer) on a variety of subjects including the King James Bible, 17th-century literacy, Crete, Homer, the idea of Arcadia, the untold story of Britain's 20th-century whalers and the future of Atlantic seabirds.