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Eric Nicol


Born
in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
December 28, 1919

Died
February 02, 2011

Genre
Humor, Theater, Literature & Fiction


Eric Patrick Nicol was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime humor columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia newspaper The Province. He also published over 40 books, both original works and compilations of his humour columns, and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times.

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Average rating: 3.61 · 138 ratings · 23 reviews · 65 distinct works
Dickens of the Mounted
3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1990
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Canadian Politics Unplugged
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2.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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The joy of hockey
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Old Is In: A Guide For Agin...
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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Script Tease: A Wordsmith's...
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Vancouver
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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Russia, Anyone?
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1961
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A Herd of Yaks: The Best of...
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1962
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Letters to my son
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions
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The Roving I
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1950 — 3 editions
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“What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise”
― Eric Nicol, Letters to my son
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