title: James W. Nichol
text: # James W. Nichol
  
  James W. Nichol (born 1940 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. He was also short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel in 2009. He was the vice-president of Playwrights Canada and was playwright-in-residence at the National Art Centre.
  
  ## Novels
  
  * Midnight Cab (2002)
  * Death Spiral (2013)
  * Transgression (2013)
  
  ## Plays
  
  * Tub (1969)
  * Sweet Home Sweet (1972)
  * The Book of Solomon Spring (1972)
  * Gwendoline (1978)
  * Child (1979)
  * Sonny (1982)
  * Relative Strangers (1983)
  * When I Wake (1984)
  * The Three True Loves of Jasmine Hoover (1986)
  * The Stone Angel (adapted from Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel) (1995)
  * Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde: A Love Story (1995–1996)
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Nichol lives in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
  
  