Christopher Nicholson was born in London in 1956, and has lived near Shaftesbury in Dorset for the past thirty years. His first novel, The Fattest Man in America, was published in 2005. The Elephant Keeper, which followed in 2009, was shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel award and for the Encore Award. His third novel, Winter, about the life of the elderly Thomas Hardy, was published in 2014. Among the Summer Snows was shortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Writing and longlisted for the 2018 Highland Book Prize.
