Charles Nicholl, Author University of Chicago Press $20 (352p) ISBN 978-0-226-58029-6
As a teenager in Paris, Rimbaud (18541891) thrilled at his initiation into violent sex with poet Paul Verlaine, 10 years his elder. However, on the evidence of his subsequent travels in Africaas documented by Nichollhe fled the fleshpots of Paris...
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Charles Nicholl, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $24.95 (413p) ISBN 978-0-15-175981-1
Elizabethan playwright-poet Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593 at the age of 28, supposedly in a dispute over a tavern bill or ``reckoning.'' In a painstaking piece of scholarship that reads like an intricate detective thriller, British author...
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Charles Nicholl, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-30926-8
Sent by his British publisher to Colombia to write an expose of drug trafficking, Nicholl roamed the country, traced a thread of cocaine preparation, sale and export, and was forced to participate in one drug deal himself. Although a full-scale...
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Charles Nicholl, Author Viking Books $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-82816-6
Nicholl's ( The Fruit Palace ) new book plays on words in its title as the author slips between the borders of Thailand and Burma and the real and imagined fears encountered in a richly contradictory region--a culture as deeply entrenched in...
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Charles Nicholl, Author, Viking Books, Manufactured by . Viking $32.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-670-03345-4
Nicholl aims for the man behind the myth in this penetrating, highly detailed biography, which recognizes da Vinci's "mysterious greatness as an artist, scientist and philosopher" but avoids hagiography (and nearly steers clear of the...
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Charles Nicholl, Author, Robin Desser, Editor Vintage Books USA $12 (307p) ISBN 978-0-679-74364-4
Nicholl's acclaimed chronicle of his travels in Colombia includes a new introduction. (Aug.)
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Charles Nicholl, Author . Viking $24.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-670-01850-5
Nicholl, winner of a Hawthornden Prize for
Arthur Rimbaud in Africa
, re-creates the physical and cultural circumstances of the two-year period of 1603–1605 when Shakespeare, around 40 and at the peak of his profession, was a lodger in the...
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