Nicholas Evans
Nicholas Evans was born and grew up in Worcestershire,
England. He studied law at Oxford University, graduating
with first class honors, then worked as a journalist for
three years on the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne. He then moved into televsion, producing films
about US politics and the Middle-East for a weekly current
affairs programme called Weekend World. It was
during this time that he traveled a lot and got to know the
United States.
In 1982 he started to produce arts documentaries - about
famous writers, painters and film-makers, several of which
won international awards (films about David Hockney,
Francis Bacon, Patricia Highsmith). In 1983 he made a film
about the great British director David Lean (Lawrence of
Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, etc). Lean became a
friend and mentor and persuaded Evans to switch from fact
to fiction.
For the next ten years, Evans wrote and produced a
number of films for television and the cinema. In 1993 he
met a blacksmith in the far South-West of England who told
him about horse whisperers - people who have the gift of
healing traumatized horses. Evans started work on what was
to be his first novel.
Published in the fall of 1995, The Horse
Whisperer has now sold about fifteen million copies
across the world. It has been the number one bestseller in
about 20 countries and has been translated into 36
languages. It was also made into a movie, starring,
produced and directed by Robert Redford.
The Loop and The Smoke Jumper , Evans's second
and third novels, were again an international bestsellers,
topping the bestseller lists in many countries. The
Smoke Jumper will be published in a paperback edition
on July 30, 2003. Evans lives in London and Devon, England.
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Series
Books:The Brave, October 2010
Hardcover
The Divide, September 2005
Hardcover
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