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Nigel Cawthorne is a prolific writer and is the author of both popular and investigative history books. Publishers tell him that he is the most published living author in the UK. This is difficult to verify as he works under five different names and assumes other writers do too.
He came to London to study physics at University College London and is, consequently, one of the Godless of Gower Street. To support himself, he became a printer’s messenger. Awaiting proofs at IPC Business Press one evening, he spotted a wanted ad on the notice board for a features writer on Nuclear Engineering International. He applied immediately. The vacancy had already been filled, but they offered him a job on a weekly tabloid for the white goods trade called the Electrical and Electronic Trader, where he learnt the craft of Grub Street.
He went to see the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Hanoi researching The Bamboo Cage, showing that US servicemen were held prisoner in southeast Asia after the Vietnam War. Though the book was not published in the US, he was called to testify to the US Senate. He followed up with The Iron Cage, showing 31,000 British prisoners of war disappeared into the gulags in 1945. Questions were asked in both houses of Parliament. His flat was broken into and documents taken.
He has now published 175 books as Nigel Cawthorne, Al Cimino, Alexander Macdonald, Gordon Bowers and Karl Streisand.