Nicholas Mosley

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Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (born June 25, 1923) is a British novelist. He is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley and Cynthia Curzon, the daughter of Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Diana Mosley (née Mitford) was his stepmother.

Born in London, Mosley was educated at Eton and Oxford and served in Italy during the Second World War. He succeeded as the 3rd Baron Ravensdale in 1966 on the death of Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale. On the death of his father he also succeeded to the baronetcy.

Nicholas Mosley has been married twice and is the father of five children. He lives in London.

Select novels

Corruption (1957)
Accident (1965) (filmed in 1967 by Joseph Losey, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter — see Accident (movie))
Impossible Object (1968)
Natalie Natalia (1971)
Serpent (1981)
Judith (1986)
Hopeful Monsters (1990) - which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award
Children of Darkness and Light (1995)
The Hesperides Tree (2001)
Inventing God (2003)
Look at the Dark (2005)

Mosley has also written two volumes of family biography, Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 (1982) and Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933-1980 (1983) [link], and wrote the screenplay for Joseph Losey's 1973 film, The Assassination of Trotsky. His autobiography is called Efforts at Truth (1994).

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