AUTHOR Nicholas Evans has tragically died aged 72.

The writer – best known for penning global hit The Horse Whisperer – tragically suffered a heart attack on August 9, his agent United Agents said.

Nicholas wrote The Horse Whisperer in 1995 and it rapidly soared into The New York Times' top ten list of best-selling books that year.

It sold 15 MILLION copies in total, making it one of the best-selling books of all time.

In 2003, The Horse Whisperer was shortlisted on a survey of the UK's "best-loved book".

It wasmade into a film in 1998, starring Robert Redford,  Kristin Scott Thomas,  Scarlett Johansson and Sam Neill.

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Nicholas was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, before moving to Devon where he lived with wife singer and songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming.

He leaves behind three kids.

Several family members of Nicholas' family were famously poisoned in 2008 after accidentally eating deadly webcap mushrooms.

The family had gathered the mushrooms on holiday in Scotland.

They all had to have kidney dialysis to recover from the poison – with Nicholas requiring a transplant in 2011 using a kidney donated by his daughter.

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