Adam Nicolson (born 12 September 1957) is a British author. He is noted for his books Sea Room — about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides — and the bestselling Power and Glory (published in North America as God's Secretaries), about the making of the King James Bible. God's Secretaries was a New York Times "Notable Book". In 2005, he published Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero, about Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar. Nicolson lives with his family Molly, Rosie, Tom, Will and Ben and his wife Sarah Raven at Perch Hill Farm in Sussex. He is the son of writer Nigel Nicolson and grandson of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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