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Nickson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire but lived in the United States for some 30 years from the age of 21.
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He is a music journalist, specialising in world and roots music Foreign several years he wrote a regular column for Global Rhythm magazine, and wrote The National Public Radio Curious Listener"s Guide to World. He contributes interviews and reviews to several music magazines and websites.
He has written biographies of celebrities including Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor and Christopher Reeve, 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 United Kingdom in May 2011 (September in the United States), 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.
