[1] Geoff J. Nicholson was born in Hillsborough, Sheffield[2] studied English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Modern European Drama at the University of Essex.

He was generally regarded as a satirist in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh,[3] his writing also being compared favorably with that of Kinsgley and Martin Amis, Jonathan Coe,[4] Will Self and Zadie Smith.

[5] The main themes and features of his books included leading characters with major obsessions, sexual and otherwise (guitars, Volkswagens, women's feet and shoes), interweaving storylines and hidden subcultures and societies.

His novel What We Did on Our Holidays was made into the 2007 film Permanent Vacation, featuring David Carradine, directed by W. Scott Peake.

[6][7][8][9] He was a member of the delegation of Los Angeles writers and filmmakers invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in the Guadalajara International Book Festival in 2009.