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Charles Nicholl |
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Charles Nicholl is the author of nine books of history, biography and travel, including the celebrated The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography, and the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Gold Dagger’ Award for non-fiction), Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (winner of the Hawthornden Prize), The Fruit Palace and The Creature in the Map.
He has presented two documentaries for British television, and has lectured in Britain, Italy and the United States. His latest book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street. He lives in Italy with his wife and children.
"His audacious sleuthing into the lives – and deaths – of cultural icons has yielded a trove of close-focus investigative biographies, ingeniously researched and beautifully told. "I'm not very good with epochs and -isms, but give me a chance to get to grips with a day or a week, and I think I can produce something that's alive.""
From interview with Boyd Tonkin, The Independent, November 2007
