Nigel Nicolson is the author of Portrait of a Marriage, a biography of his parents, Harold Nicolson & Vita Sackville-West, & of Long Life, his own memoirs. He has also written books on politics & the arts & the Whitbread Prize-winning biography Mary Curzon. A Member of Parliament for several years, he is cofounder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson publishers. He lives at Sissinghurst, England, now a National Trust property.