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Elizabeth Nickson is a writer and journalist who has been published widely for the past twenty 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, move and pop stars, politicians, and royalty, as well as torture victims, political prisoners and criminals. She initiated and co-ordinated the acquisition of Nelson Mandela's autobiography for Little Brown. 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, 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 50's and 60's. 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 Globe and Mail, while she builds a carbon-neutral house on Saltspring Island. She is writing a book about her experience.

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