William Nicholson

William Nicholson is a British playwright, screenwriter and novelist deemed one of the biggest cultural icons of the UK. His father was a specialist in tropical medicine who worked to eradicate leprosy in Nigeria while his mother was the daughter of a South African Jew that went to Somerville, where she graduated with a First class in English. His parents met on the ship to Lagos as his father was going back to work as a doctor while she was going to start a lecturing job at the British Council in Nigeria. His parents then moved back to the UK and he grew up at an end of the line town named Seaford on the South Coast. Nicholson spent much of his time outdoors on the pebbly and bracken beaches until he was sent to school as an eleven-year-old.