Ruaridh nicoll biography sample

PERSONAL:

Born 1969, in Arbroath, Scotland; son of a mill operator and sheep farmer; married Alison Watt (a painter).

ADDRESSES:

Home—Edinburgh, Scotland.

Agent—Antony Harwood, 109 Riverbank House, 1 Putney Bridge Approach, London SW6 3JD, England.

CAREER:

Writer and journalist. Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh, Scotland, became environment and science correspondent, 1994; Observer, London, England, became Washington, DC correspondent, 1995; Guardian, Manchester, England, southern Africa correspondent until 1998.

Previously worked for Lloyds of London.

WRITINGS:

White Male Heart (novel), Doubleday (London, England), 2001, Justin, Charles (Boston, MA), 2003.

Wide Eyed (novel), Doubleday (London, England), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Though he comes from the Scottish highlands that provide the setting for his first novel, White Male Heart, Ruaridh Nicoll spent much of his young adulthood traveling far from his home.

Recalling his childhoo