Eric Patrick Nicol is one of Canada's most popular humorists, three times the recipient of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Nicol was born to William Nicol, an accountant, and his wife, Amelia Mannock Nicol, in Kingston, Ontario. He attended the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1941; M.A., 1948), served for three years (1942-1945) in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and made his home in Vancouver, where he has worked as a radio and television script-writer and as a syndicated columnist for the Vancouver Daily Province. One of his columns for the Province , against capital punishment, resulted in a citation for contempt and a trial that attracted national interest; another, on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, was read into The Congressional Record. Nicol has been married twice, to Myrl Mary Helen Heselton and to his present wife, Mary Razzell, author of fiction for young people.

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