Nicholas Evans, the British creator of the bestselling novel "The Horse Whisperer," has died at 72, his representatives mentioned Monday.
United Brokers mentioned Evans died "all of a sudden" on Aug. 9 following a coronary heart assault.
Revealed in 1995, "The Horse Whisperer" was Evans' debut novel and offered greater than 15 million copies worldwide. The story of a coach employed to assist an injured teenager and her horse again to well being was tailored right into a Hollywood film starring Robert Redford because the title character and Scarlett Johansson taking part in younger rider Grace MacLean in her breakout position.
Born in 1950 in Worcestershire, England, Evans studied regulation at Oxford College and labored as a journalist within the Seventies.
He labored as a screenwriter and tv documentary producer earlier than starting work on his debut novel. His different books embrace "The Loop," "The Smoke Jumper," "The Divide" and "The Courageous."
In 2008, Evans turned severely ailing after cooking and consuming toxic mushrooms picked in Scottish forests. He and his household have been hospitalized and needed to endure kidney therapies.