Nicholas Andrew Selwyn Lezard[1] is an English journalist, author and literary critic.
[2][3][4] Louis's eldest son, Julien (1902–1958) – the third son, Squadron Leader Selwyn Edward Lezard (1908–1974), R.A.F.V.R., being Nicholas Lezard's grandfather – was a Cambridge-educated barrister and noted society figure and gambler, who served in the Special Operations Executive alongside Xan Fielding.
Julien Lezard married Hilda, daughter of Sir Daniel Cooper, 2nd Baronet; she was the widow of Thomas Uchter Caulfield Knox, Viscount Northland, son of Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, and of Geoffrey Edward Mills, son of Charles Mills, 1st Baron Hillingdon.
[1] From 2007 to 2017, he had a weekly column, 'Nicholas Lezard's choice', reviewing paperback books for The Guardian.
[11] Lezard's memoir, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, about his life after a marriage ended, was published in 2013.