Eric Nicol (1919–2011)

Author of Dickens of the Mounted

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About the Author

Eric nicol is Canada's most beloved humorist and author of some six thousand newspaper columns, several stage plays, scripts for radio and television and more than thirty books--three of them winners of the Stephen Leacock award for humour. He was also the first recipient of the BC Gas Lifetime show more Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the literary arts in 1995. His most recent book of memoirs, Anything for a Laugh, was shortlisted for the 1999 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize. Nicol was born in 1919 in Kingston, Ontario but has spent most of his life in Vancouver, BC, where he currently resides with his wife Mary Razzell. show less

Includes the names: Eric Nicol, Eric Nichol, Eric Patrick Nicol

Works by Eric Nicol

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Dickens of the Mounted (1989) — Author — 29 copies

Say, uncle; a completely uncalled-for history of the U. S (1961) 23 copies

Canadian Politics Unplugged (2003) 22 copies

Canada, cancelled because of lack of interest (1977) 13 copies

Vancouver (1970) 13 copies

An uninhibited history of Canada (1959) 12 copies

Golf: The Agony and the Ecstasy (1982) 11 copies

The roving I (1953) 11 copies

Shall we Join the Ladies? (1972) 10 copies

Girdle Me a Globe (1957) 9 copies

Space Age, Go Home! (1964) 9 copies

A Herd of Yaks, the Best of Eric Nicol (1963) 9 copies

Russia, anyone? A completely uncalled-for history of the USSR 9 copies

Canadide: A patriotic satire (1983) 9 copies

The joy of hockey (1978) 7 copies

Letters to my son (1974) 7 copies

In Darkest Domestica (1972) 7 copies

Don't Move! (1971) 6 copies

Old Is In: A Guide For Aging Boomers (2004) 6 copies

Sense and Nonsense (1947) 6 copies

Still a Nicol;: The best of Eric Nicol, (1972) 5 copies

There's a Lot of It Going Around ... (1976) 5 copies

The U.S. or us : what's the difference, eh? (1986) 4 copies

Twice over lightly (1958) 3 copies

Script Tease: A Wordsmith's Waxings on Life and Writing (2010) 3 copies

Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs (1998) 3 copies

Joy of Football (1980) 3 copies

When Nature Calls: Life at a Gulf Island Cottage (1999) 2 copies

A Scar is Born (1968) 2 copies

Back Talk : A Book for Bad Back Sufferers - And Those Who Put up with Them (1992) — Author — 2 copies

The best of Eric Nicol 2 copies

The clam made a face (1972) 2 copies

Three plays (1975) 2 copies

One man's media, and how to write for them (1973) 1 copy

Eric Nichol Takes His Canadian play to Broadway and ... A SCAR IS BORN (1968) 1 copy

Uninhibited History of Canada 1 copy

Vancouver The Romance of Canadian Cities Series 1 copy

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The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contributor — 5 copies

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