Sir Harold George Nicolson (1886-1968) was a British diplomat, historian, biographer, critic and journalist, and diarist of note. Harold Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia (now Iran), on November 21, 1886, where his father was British charge...

Harold Nicolson was one of the major biographers of the modern period and a leading theorist of the biographical art as well. By training he was a diplomat, and he became, because of his intellectual and temperamental gifts, an unequaled communicator....

Harold George Nicolson was born on 21 November 1886 in Tehran, where his father, Sir Arthur Nicolson, was a British diplomat; his mother was the former Mary Katherine Rowan-Hamilton. After a conventional upper-class education at Wellington School and...

Harold Nicolson. Norman Rose. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]20.00. xv + 383 pages. ISBN 0-22406218-2. For the last four decades Sir Harold Nicolson and his wife, Vita Sackville-West, have enjoyed cult status in the literary world. The main reason is their colourful private...

When I hear the misrepresentations of gay and lesbian lives that occur almost daily in these pre-election weeks, I think of the character in Chekhov's "Gooseberries" who said" "someone ought to stand with a hammer at the door of every happy contented man,continually...

According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by each generation. She takes on the shape of difficult modernist … or comedian of manners, or neurotic highbrow aesthete, or inventive fantasist, or pernicious snob,...

According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by each generation. She takes on the shape of difficult modernist … or comedian of manners, or neurotic highbrow aesthete, or inventive fantasist, or pernicious...