Stephen Marlowe, Author Arcade Publishing $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-1-55970-358-1
Hildago by birth, soldier in Spain's most famous naval battle, slave in Algiers, excommunicated commissary and imprisoned debtor, Cervantes would still have been a notable Renaissance man even if he had not written the Quixote--which, in Marlowe's...
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Stephen Marlowe, Author Scribner Book Company $19.95 (569p) ISBN 978-0-684-18769-3
Marlowe makes humorous capital of the perennial rumor that Columbus began life as the son of forcibly converted Jews, an ineffectual father and a powerful mom who preferred a Passover seder to an Easter Sunday dinner any day. These ""memoirs''no...
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Stephen Marlowe, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-94049-4
In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, newly arrived in Baltimore, disappeared for five days, finally surfacing drunk in one of that city's taverns; he died four days later. From this fact and some biographical clues, Marlowe (The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus)
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