About the Author

Charles Nicholl has written history, biography and travel but brings all these disciplines together as a literarydetective. Subjects have included Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Rimbaud and Leonardo da Vinci. His most recentbook is The Lodger, an intimate study of Shakespeare's life in London in the first years of the 17th century. He is aFellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a recipient of the Hawthornden prize and has won the James Tait Blackprize for biography and the Crime Writers' Association 'Gold Dagger' award. He has also presented documentaryprogrammes on television and has lectured in Britain, Italy and the United States. He lives in Lucchesia in Italy withhis wife and children and is a visiting Professor at Sussex University.