Adam Nicolson

An author with an illustrious literary heritage, Adam Nicolson is the grandson of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West and lives in his family’s estate of Sissinghurst. A journalist and author of books on history, landscape and nature, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland and the author of books including: Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (which won the 2009 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize), Sea Room, The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters, The Smell of Summer Grass, The Gentry and The Seabird’s Cry.