Chris Nickson is a British

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 novelist, music journalist, and biographer.

Nickson was born in Leeds

Leeds

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, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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 but lived in the United States

United States

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 for some 30 years from the age of 21. He is a music journalist, specialising in world and roots music. For several years he wrote a regular column for Global Rhythm

Global Rhythm

Global Rhythm is a New York-based monthly music and lifestyle magazine featuring coverage of world music, film, cuisine and travel. It is published monthly and circulated across North America, Europe and hundreds of other locations worldwide....

magazine, and wrote The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music. He contributes interviews and reviews to several music magazines and websites. He has written biographies of celebrities including Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End...

, Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor. He has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. McGregor is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting , young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy , and poet Christian in the...

 and Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve

Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author and activist...

, and in 2010 he published his first novel, The Broken Token, set in Leeds in 1731. The next novel in the series, "Cold Cruel Winter" will be published in the UK in May 2011 (September in the US), with the third, "The Constant Lovers," due in 2012. His biography of the late singer-songwriter John Martyn, "Solid Air," will be published as an ebook in June 2011.

Select bibliography

• The NPR Curious Reader's Guide to World Music (1994), Macmillan, ISBN 978-0399530326
• Superhero: A Biography of Christopher Reeve (1999), Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-96980-6
• Ewan McGregor: An Unauthorized Biography (1999), Perigee, ISBN 978-0-312-96910-3
• The Broken Token (2010), Creme de la Crime, ISBN 978-0956056610