Charles Nicholl
Charles Nicholl was born in London in 1950. He read English Literature at Kings College Cambridge and then went on to win The Daily Telegraph 'Young Writer of the Year' Award in 1972. He has since contributed to Granta, Rolling Stone, The London Review of Books and most major UK newspapers. He has written and presented two television documentaries for Channel 4, contributed to various BBC radio progams and has lectured around the world.
Nicholl is the author of numerous books including two acclaimed travel books, The Fruit Palace and Borderlines and The Reckoning, an investigation into the murder of Christopher Marlowe, for which he won the Crime Writer’s Association 'Gold Dagger' Award for Non-Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Somebody Else, a study of the poet Rimbaud won the Hawthornden Prize and was runner-up for the W.H Smith award.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind was published by Penguin in 2004. His most recent book, The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street – an exploration of Shakespeare’s life in London – was published by Penguin in 2007.
Charles Nicholl lives in Italy with his wife and children.
Titles
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street (Penguin, 2007)
Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind (Penguin, 2007)
Somebody Else (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
The Reckoning (Jonathan Cape, 1992)
Borderlines (Secker & Warburg, 1988)
The Fruit Palace (St. Martins Press, 1986)