Elizabeth Nickson

Elizabeth Nickson is a Canadian writer and journalist who has been published widely for the past twenty years. Nickson was European bureau chief of "Life" magazine in the late 1980s, and early 1990s. During that time she arranged photo stories and interviewed Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, the Dalai Lama, and dozens of other leaders, movie and pop stars, politicians and royalty, as well as torture victims, political prisoners and criminals. She intiated and co-ordinated the acquisition of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography for Little Brown. Prior to this appointment, she was a back-of-the-book reporter for the London bureau of "Time" magazine.

Nickson has also written for "The (London) Sunday Times Magazine", "The Guardian", "The Observer", "The Independent", "Tatler", "The Sunday Telegraph", "Vogue", "Saturday Night", "Chatelaine", and "Harper’s Magazine". In 1994 Bloomsbury UK and Knopf Canada published her novel, "The Monkey-Puzzle Tree", which tells the story of the CIA mind control program in Montreal in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1999, Elizabeth returned to Canada, and began writing for "The Globe and Mail", as a contributing reviewer for the Books section. She then became a weekly columnist for the "Globe", moving to the Comment Page of the "National Post" in 2000. She is currently writing a column for the "Women’s Post", and once in a while, for the Comment Page of the "The Globe and Mail", while she builds a carbon-neutral house on Saltspring Island. She is writing a book about her experience.

Nickson is particularly known for her right-wing opinion pieces, which have often fiercely attacked politicians and public figures associated in some way with the political left.

Plagiarism

[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041106/PLAGIARISM06/TPNational/TopStories Nickson’s column was discontinued by the "National Post"] after it was discovered that a 2002 column titled “Beneath the glamour, you find film scum”, detailing the supposed “bad behaviour” of “fully paid up and noisy liberals” such as Kim Basinger, Sylvester Stallone, and Mike Myers, contained five sentences that should have been attributed to a 2001 article by Jonah Goldberg of "National Review".