Christopher Nicole

Christopher Robin Nicole
Born Christopher Robin Nicole
7 December 1930
Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana)
Pen name Christopher Nicole,
Peter Grange,
Andrew York,
Robin Cade,
Mark Logan,
Christina Nicholson,
Alison York,
Leslie Arlen,
Robin Nicholson,
C.R. Nicholson,
Daniel Adams,
Simon McKay,
Caroline Gray,
Alan Savage,
Max Marlow (with Diana Bachmann)
Occupation novelist
Language English
Nationality British
Education Queen's College, Guyana,
Harrison College (Barbados)
Period 1957–present
Genre historical, war, spy, romance
Spouse Jean Regina Amelia Barnett (1951–Divorced)
Diana Bachmann (1982 – present)
Children 5

Christopher Robin Nicole (born 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana) is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He wrote as Christopher Nicole under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He also wrote under the penname Max Marlow co-authoring with his wife, fellow author Diana Bachmann.

Biography

Personal life

Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, in British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer.[1]Both his parents were Scottish.[2] He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956.[1] In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives,[3] but he also has a domicile in Spain.

On 31 March 1951, Nicole married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula,[1] they divorced.[4] On 8 May 1982 Nicole married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.

Writing career

As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later Nicole wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels.

He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow.[5] Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.[6]

He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century.

Bibliography

References and sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Who's who in the world, Marquis Who's Who, inc., 1976, p. 767
  2. ↑ Christopher Nicole at Severn House, retrieved 2012-06-11
  3. ↑ Christopher Nicole's Bio at ISIS
  4. ↑ Lesley Henderson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1990), Twentieth-century romance and historical writers, St. James Press, p. 856
  5. ↑ Christopher Nicole's pseudonyms at trussel
  6. ↑ Christopher Nicole Amazon's Page