"Long Life" column for The Spectator, and a Time of My Life column for The Sunday Telegraph. His autobiography, Long Life, was published in 1997. Personal life and death In 1953 Nicolson married Philippa, the daughter of Sir Gervais Tennyson d'Eyncourt, and they had two daughters, Rebecca, a publisher, and Juliet, a historian, and a son, Adam, a writer. Juliet has written about her father and his ancestors in A House Full of Daughters (2016). Adam has revived the home farm at Sissinghurst. Nigel and Philippa divorced in 1970. Nicolson died on 23 September 2004, at Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent. Ancestors Bibliography The Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939–1945 (Gale & Polden, 1949) with Patrick Forbes Lord of the Isles: Lord Leverhulme in the Hebrides (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960) People and Parliament (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1958) The United Nations: A Reply to Its Critics (1963) Sissinghurst Castle: An Illustrated History (Headley Bros, 1964) Great Houses of Britain (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965) Diaries & Letters of Harold Nicolson (Collins, 1966–68) three volumes, editor Great Houses of The Western World (G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1968) Alex: The Life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973) Portrait of a Marriage (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973) Letters of Virginia Woolf (The Hogarth Press, 1975–1980) six volumes, editor The Himalayas (Time-Life Books, 1975)(The World's Wild Places) Mary Curzon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977) The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty National Trust Book of Great Houses in Britain (David R Godinez, 1978) Napoleon 1812 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985) Lady Curzon's India: Letters of a Vicereine (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985) Two Roads to Dodge City (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986) with Adam Nicolson The Village in History (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) with Graham Nicholson and Jane Fawcett Counties of Britain: A Tudor Atlas by John Speed (Pavilion Books, 1988) with Alasdair Hawkyard Kent (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) The World of Jane Austen (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991) Vita and Harold : The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992) editor A Long Life: Memoirs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997) Virginia Woolf (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000) (Lives series) Fanny Burney: The Mother of English Fiction (Short Books, 2002) Vita Sackville-West : Selected Writings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) editor with Mary Ann Caws The Queen and Us: The Second Elizabethan Age ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003) See also List