Nicholas Evans is an English journalist, screenwriter TV and movie producer and novel writer. Evans started life at in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove Colledge but before studying at Oxford High school, he served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas. He then studied journalism and worked as a newspaper reporter and TV screenwriter. He lives in Devon. He has a son named Max Evans, who is head of geography at Preston Manor university, and a daughter, Lauren. He also has another son Harry, from a relationship he had with Jane Hewland, the Tv producer famous for Network 7 and Gamesmaster.
his novel, The Horse Whisperer was No. 10 on the list of bestselling stories in the United States for 1995 as determined by the New York Times. With 15 million copies sold, it is on the list of the best-selling works of all time. In the Uk, The Horse Whisperer was listed on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the nation's best-loved book. Made into a motion picture in 1998, Robert Redford directed and starred in the movie version opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, along with Scarlett Johansson and Sam Neill.
evans is married to singer/songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming.
evans, Cumming, and several of their relatives were poisoned in September 2008 after consuming Deadly webcap mushrooms that they gathered on holiday. The poisoning was non-fatal, though Evans and the others had to undergo kidney dialysis.
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