Nicholas Henry Wapshott was born on 13 January 1952 and is a British journalist, broadcaster and author.
12 Facts About Nicholas Wapshott
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Nicholas Wapshott has been an online content consultant to a number of media and private clients.
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Nicholas Wapshott was the editor of The Times Saturday edition as well as the founding editor of The Times Magazine.
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Nicholas Wapshott has written a number of biographies including those of Margaret Thatcher and Carol Reed.
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Nicholas Wapshott is currently writing a sequel to Keynes Hayek.
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Nicholas Wapshott was born in Dursley, Gloucestershire, the second of four sons of Raymond and Beryl Wapshott.
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Nicholas Wapshott graduated in politics from the University of York in 1973.
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When Kenneth Thomson sold the paper to Rupert Murdoch, who installed Harold Evans as editor, Nicholas Wapshott set up a weekly listings section, Preview.
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Nicholas Wapshott was the first to report on the early life of John Major, the surprise successor to Thatcher, and correctly predicted his unlikely rise with a timely profile that revealed that the family of the new prime minister had shared a landing with prostitutes, that his father had been a tight rope walker and latterly a maker of concrete garden gnomes, and that, during an extended period of unemployment, he had been beaten to a job as a bus conductor by a West Indian woman.
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In 1992, Nicholas Wapshott returned to The Times to transform the lacklustre Saturday Review section into The Times Magazine, published each Saturday.
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Nicholas Wapshott was most recently the opinion editor at Newsweek and one of the quartet of senior editors who revived the title in 2014 after a year of non-publication.
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Nicholas Wapshott has been a regular guest on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC and the Charlie Rose Show and contributed on American matters to The New Statesman.