Nesta Myfanwy Wyn Ellis is a journalist and author of Welsh origin whose books include a biography of the former prime minister Sir John Major.
Nesta Wyn Ellis was born in the Hiraethog Rural District, Denbighshire, and brought up in Snowdonia, North Wales, where her extracurricular training in the performing arts began.
She was a frequent contributor of articles to the UK quality newspapers such as The Times and magazines, including Punch and well known for her two biographies (of John Major and of the Marquess of Bath) and several novels, each different in their style of storytelling and material.
[3] She is also a producer with her service to foreign production companies, 'Paris Production Services' and is producing with her British company Lioness Films Ltd (UK) her first feature, currently in Development, is "Three Days In September", the story of a singer who follows her love to Paris, which she will also direct.She has also written songs and music to form the basis of the score.
But her books, especially the novel 'The Banker's Daughter' (Sidgwick and Jackson 1989, Blake 1994, Lioness Books on Amazon Kindle 2014) and her biography of John Major, (Macdonald 1991, Futura 1992, Dynasty Press on Kindle 2015) have benefited from her political experience, the latter especially on the hustings upon which she was able to write with personal empathy of John Major's early political career.
During the campaign, she called for the UK government to recognise the Republic of Biafra a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria that existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970.
In 1974 she published 'Dear Elector: The Truth about MPs' based partly on her own first hand experience as a UK Parliamentary candidate and also on interviews with politicians and their wives.
In 1989, her first novel, "The Banker's Daughter" a story set in the worlds of politics, banking and crime brought her public acclaim in the field of fiction writing.
In 1991 she published a biography of British Prime Minister John Major to the accompaniment of year long daily press coverage and tabloid sensation.
A lighthearted anthology of brief biographies, "Brtiain's Top 100 Eligible Bachelors," led to frequent TV appearances on studio programmes and documentaries throughout the 1990s.
In 1995, after singing on a BBC Arena pilot documentary about Jimi Hendrix, she began composing songs and in October 2007 launched her work with an album "Experience of Love" at a cocktail concert sponsored by Camelot at the Pizza on the Park, a premier London jazz venue.