Nicholas Evans
Novelist, Author
1950 –
Who is Nicholas Evans?
Nicholas Evans is an English journalist, screenwriter television and film producer and novelist. Evans was born at in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove School but before studying at Oxford University, he served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas. He then studied journalism and worked as a newspaper reporter and television screenwriter. He lives in Devon. He has a son, Max Evans, who is head of geography at Preston Manor High School, and a daughter, Lauren. He also has another son, Harry, from a relationship he had with Jane Hewland, the TV producer famous for Network 7 and GamesMaster.
His novel, The Horse Whisperer was No. 10 on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1995 as determined by the New York Times. With 15 million copies sold, it is on the list of the best-selling books of all time. In the UK, The Horse Whisperer was listed on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the "nation's best-loved book". It was made into a motion picture in 1998; Robert Redford directed, and he starred opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, along with Scarlett Johansson and Sam Neill.
Evans is married to singer/songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming.
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- Born
- Jul 26, 1950
Bromsgrove - Also known as
- Nick Evans
- Spouses
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- University of Oxford
- Bromsgrove School
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on July 23, 2013
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