| Sumario: | Ion Trewin looks back on the life of the co-founder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson. Nigel Nicolson's final job as an author was to return to the celebrated diaries of his father, Harold Nicolson. As the Trewin discovered from working on his books, Nigel was a publisher's ideal author, always delivering his immaculate text with accompanying photographs and captions. To help him produce the new edition of his father's diaries, Trewin photocopied not only the original three volumes but also a condensed one-volume edition made in 1980 by Stanley Olson, a young American writer who had been hired by the original publishers, Collins, to abridge and edit the text.
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