Autor: Charles Nicholl

Charles Nicholl has written twelve books of history, biography and travel. His account of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s years in Africa, Somebody Else (also published by Eland), was awarded the Hawthornden Prize. The Reckoning, an investigation of the murder of Christopher Marlowe, won the James Tait Black Prize for biography and the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Gold Dagger’ for non-fiction. His other books include an acclaimed biography of Leonardo da Vinci; a reconstruction of a sixteenth-century expedition in search of El Dorado; and the travel classic The Fruit Palace, about life among the drug-smugglers of Colombia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex.