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One of the most riveting biographies you'll read all year. Scotsman Impossible to resist Sunday Telegraph Very hard to put down Spectator Effervescent Independent on Sunday Unusual and fascinating Literary Review

'Utterly absorbing... devilishly good.' Alexandra Harris, Guardian 'One of the most riveting biographies you'll read all year.' Scotsman 'Impossible to resist' Sunday Telegraph 'Very hard to put down' Spectator 'Effervescent' Independent on Sunday 'Unusual and fascinating' Literary Review

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Rodney Bolt was born in South Africa. He studied at Rhodes University and wrote the play Gandhi: Act Too, which won the 1980 Durban Critic's Circle Play of the Year award. That same year he won a scholarship to Cambridge and read English at Corpus Christi. He has twice won twice won Travel Writer of the Year awards in Germany and is the author of History Play, an invented biography of Christopher Marlowe and The Librettist of Venice, a biography of Lorenzo Da Ponte, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Amsterdam.

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