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ELIZABETH NICKSON Elizabeth Nickson is a writer and journalist who has been published widely for the past fifteen years. Nickson was European Bureau Chief of Life Magazine in the late 80's and early 90's. During this time, she arranged photo stories and interviewed Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, the Dalai Lama and dozens of other leaders, movie and pop stars, politicans, and royalty, as well as torture victims, political prisioners and criminals. She initiated and co-ordinated the acquisiton of Nelson Mandela's autobiography for Little Brown, smuggling letters into prison before Mandela was released. Prior to her appointment at Life, she was a reporter at Time Magazine. Nickson has also written for The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Observer The Independent, Tatler, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Sunday Express, the Wall St. Journal, Vogue, Saturday Night, Chatelaine, Reader's Digest, and Harper's Magazine. In 1994, she published a novel, The Monkey Puzzle Tree, which tells the story of the CIA mind control program in Montreal in the 50's and 60's. Nickson's column appears on National Post Online every Friday. |
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Elizabeth Nickson's past articles have consistently dealt with criticism of cultural liberalism and it's corrosive effects. A proud conservative, she often writes about modern culture from a definitely right-wing point-of-view.