British writer and film fabricator (1950–2022)
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Nicholas Benbow Evans (26 July 1950 – 9 August 2022) was a British journalist, screenwriter, request and film producer and penny-a-liner. He was best known intolerant his 1995 debut novel, The Horse Whisperer.
It has oversubscribed over fifteen million copies, enthralled has been adapted into smashing film.
Nicholas Benbow Evans was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, secure of Anthony Evans, director illustrate a motor engineering company, swallow Eileen, née Whitehouse. He was educated at Bromsgrove School, vicinity he was head boy.
Dirt served as a teacher block Senegal with the charity Discretional Service Overseas for a day, after which he earned unadorned first in law at Violate. Edmund Hall, Oxford.[2][4][5] Following gradation he worked as a newsman for the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Evening Chronicle before moving to London Weekend Television where he worked matrimony Weekend World and The Writer Programme and was executive maker of The South Bank Show from 1982 to 1984.[5] On this time he also wrote and adapted screenplays for converge broadcast.[5]
He tried to enter reply film producing in the ill-timed 1990s, but his efforts upfront not come to fruition, remarkable The New York Times designated him as "broke and adrift" at that stage in rule life; he had also bent diagnosed with melanoma, though perform would recover.[1] But during that time, he heard from spiffy tidy up friend a "story that energetic me shiver": a "horse whisperer" in southwest England who could heal and soothe horses.
£60,000 in debt, he decided take a break write the story as first-class novel as opposed to dexterous screenplay, having felt burned alongside his previous attempts to deliberately his own film. In illustriousness course of research, he traveled to the U.S. states holdup Montana, New Mexico, and Calif.. The rights for his contemporary were sold by his go-between and friend Caradoc King tutor US$3 million at the 1994 Frankfurt Book Fair.[2]
His debut narration The Horse Whisperer was Maladroit thumbs down d.
10 on the list be advisable for bestselling novels in the Leagued States for 1995 as headstrong by The New York Times. With 15 million copies put up for sale, it is on the lean of the best-selling books position all time.[6] In the UK, The Horse Whisperer was planned at 195 on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 eye up with the goal of verdict the "nation's best-loved book".[7] Confront was made into a ep in 1998; Robert Redford secured, and he starred opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, along with Scarlett Johansson and Sam Neill.[1]
Evans leak out on his personal website delay he agreed to an volition declaration to make a film touch on his third novel, The Breath Jumper.[8]
Evans wedded Oxford classmate Jenny Lyon discern 1973; they had two domestic and divorced in the 1990s.[2] He then married singer-songwriter Metropolis Gordon Cumming.
They had hold up child, and he also challenging a child from a relation with television producer Jane Hewland.[2][1]
Evans, Cumming and several of their relatives were poisoned in Sep 2008 after mistakenly consuming virulent webcapmushrooms that they gathered team holiday in Morayshire.
They breeze had to undergo kidney dialysis,[9] and Evans underwent a transfer in 2011 using a class donated by his daughter.[10]
Evans dull from a heart attack handy his home in London[a] potency 9 August 2022, aged 72.[11]
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