Michael Nelson
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Michael Nelson was General Manager of Reuters. Nelson was born near London on 30 April 1929. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He joined Reuters as a journalist in 1952. Since he retired from Reuters in 1989 he has written three books: War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War (Syracuse University Press and Brasseys, London, 1997), with a foreword by Lech Walesa; Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera, (I.B. Tauris, 2001), with a foreword by Asa Briggs, and Americans and the Making of the Riviera (McFarland, 2007). Nelson, who lives in Holland Park, London, and Opio, France, is married to the former Helga den Ouden and they have two sons and one daughter. website: www.michaelnelsonbooks.com This biography was provided by the author or their representative.
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