Nesta Myfanwy Wyn Ellis is a journalist and author of Welsh origin whose books include a biography of the former prime minister Sir John Major. She was also a radical Liberal politician who stood a number of times for Parliament. Background Nesta Wyn Ellis was born in the Hiraethog Rural District, Denbighshire, and brought up in Snowdonia, North Wales, where her extracurricular training in the performing arts began. She was educated at Llanrwst Grammar School in Llanrwst, Denbighshire, and at the University of Liverpool, where she graduated B.Sc. She travelled widely in Africa in the 1970s when she launched her career in journalism interviewing dissidents in South Africa and subsequently lived partly over three years at the Mount Kenya Safari Club, then part-time in the US in Washington DC for over a decade and more recently in Paris. Musical and dramatic arts have formed the basis of the work in which she is currently involved; film and music production, direction and performance. In April 2000 she moved from London to Paris where she continued her musical development, singing French favourites as well as her own compositions in French and English. Her accomplishments were noted by some UK TV companies who filmed documentaries of her life in Paris. Professional career Much of Nesta Wyn Ellis's early writing was about political issues, such as African political and human rights articles in The Guardian to the Snowdonia National Park in The Illustrated London News. She became the political correspondent for the magazine Harpers and Queen. She was a frequent contributor of articles to the UK quality newspapers such as The Times and magazines, including Punch and well known for her two biographies (of John Major and of the Marquess of Bath) and several novels, each different in their style of storytelling and material. Her exclusive articles sent from Africa's troubled zones in the 1970s appeared in The Guardian. Later she became a contributor to the humorous weekly, Punch, and political correspondent of Harper's & Queen. During the 1980s, her often controversial profiles of well known people, including many leading politicians appeared in the weekend magazines of The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Mirror and The People, and in Woman's Journal and were syndicated worldwide. Her books and journalism have led to frequent TV appearances and documentaries have been built around her books and other artistic work, including stage