Robert Nichols (July 15, 1919 – October 14, 2010) was an American architect, novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer.
[1] Born Robert Brayton Nichols in Worcester, Massachusetts,[1] July 15, 1919, Nichols served as an officer in the United States Navy in World War II, and attended and earned two degrees from Harvard University, the first a bachelors and the second in landscape architecture.
[1] Nichols's work in landscape architecture includes a redesign of Washington Square Park in the Manhattan borough of New York City.
[1] His poetry includes the volumes Red Shift (1977),[2] and Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (1962, number 15 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series).
[3][4] He also wrote the short story collection, In the Air (1991),[5] and novels, including From the Steam Room (1993),[6] and a four-part series of novellas set in the utopia Nghsi-Altai.