He ghostwrote Dame Nellie Melba’s "autobiography" Memories and Melodies (1925), and in 1966 he wrote A Case of Human Bondage about the marriage and divorce of William Somerset Maugham and Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, which was highly critical of Maugham. Nichols was a prolific author who wrote on a wide range of topics. Nichols's final trilogy is referred to as "The Sudbrook Trilogy" (1963–1969) and concerns his late 18th-century attached cottage at Ham, (near Richmond), Surrey. These books often feature his gifted but laconic gardener "Oldfield". A later trilogy written between 19 documents his travails renovating Merry Hall (Meadowstream), a Georgian manor house in Agates Lane, Ashtead, Surrey, where Nichols lived from 1946 to 1956. This bestseller - which has had 32 editions and has been in print almost continuously since 1932 - was the first of his trilogy about Allways, his Tudor thatched cottage in Glatton, Cambridgeshire. Nichols is perhaps best remembered as a writer for Woman's Own and for his gardening books, the first of which Down the Garden Path, was illustrated - as were many of his books - by Rex Whistler. He went to school at Marlborough College, and went to Balliol College, Oxford University, and was President of the Oxford Union and editor of Isis.īetween his first novel, Prelude, published in 1920, and Twilight in 1982, he wrote more than 60 books and plays on topics such as travel, politics, religion, cats, novels, mysteries, and children's stories, authoring six novels, five detective mysteries, four children's stories, six plays, and no fewer than six autobiographies. John Beverley Nichols (born Septemin Bower Ashton, Bristol, died Septemin Kingston, London), was an English writer, playwright, actor, novelist and composer.
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