Harold Nicolson

In its literary brilliance and evocative power, the diary is the equal of those of Virginia Woolf, Harold Nicolson and André Gide.

Things Fall Apart Modris Eksteins 2011

The author is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and the diplomat Harold Nicolson, and while this lineage gives her behind-the-scenes insights into the political machinations of the period her grandfather had a ringside seat when the Treaty of Versailles was brokered in 1919 her interest is largely in her own set.

When the Killing Stopped 2010

Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament, novelist, biographer, journalist, former diplomat, noted gardener — and the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West.

Five Best 2010

Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament, novelist, biographer, journalist, former diplomat, noted gardener — and the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West.

Five Best 2010

Harold Nicolson was a young Wilsonian on the British side, and wondered why he did not: We were all, at that date, dependent on America, not only for the sinews of war, but for the sinews of peace.

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament, novelist, biographer, journalist, former diplomat, noted gardener — and the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West.

Five Best 2010

Eliot, the diplomatist and historian Harold Nicolson.

Richard Holbrooke: Kennedy Democrat Fouad Ajami 2010

For the enjoyment of those of you who have presevered to the end of this post, here is a world class insult from Harold Nicolson circa post WWII courtesty of the New Yorker characterizing the United States as 'a giant with the limbs of an undergraduate, the emotions of a spinster, and the brain of a pea-hen. '

Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary 2009

Conversely, some of Oudolf's perennials are chic enough for Sissinghurst, the cultish Kentish garden made by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson — especially a wine-dark variety of scabiosa, or pincushion flower, that bloomed on the High Line during this spring's inaugural festivities.

Up in the Park Filler, Martin 2009

But in fact the folks who gave us "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "The Raj Quartet" are just getting around to perhaps their quintessential production: Nigel Nicolson's "Portrait of a Marriage," the story of the author's English-aristocrat parents, novelist Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson, and their stormy 50-year relationship.

Vita &Amp; Violet &Amp; Oh, Yes, Harold 2008