The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

Charles Nicholl is an English author born in 1950, educated at King's College, Cambridge, and specializing in history, biography, literary detection, and travel writing, with notable works including The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and CWA Gold Dagger), Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (Hawthornden Prize), and Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind. He has received early awards like the Daily Telegraph Young Writer Award (1972) and Sunday Times Young Writer Award (1974), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.com