Charles Nicholl (author)

Charles Nicholl is an English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel. His subjects have included Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Rimbaud, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Nashe and William Shakespeare. Besides his literary output, Nicholl has also presented documentary programs on television.

Nicholl was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has lectured in Britain, Italy and the United States. He lives in Italy with his wife and children.^[1] He also lectures on Martin Randall Travel tours.^[2]

Selected works

• A Cup of News – a biography of Thomas Nashe
• The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (1992 winner of the James Tait Black Prize for biography and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction)
• Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (1998 winner of the Hawthornden Prize)
• Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
• The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
• The Fruit Palace
• Borderlines (1988)

References