William Nicholls

Charles Nicholl is an English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel. He has been active as a writer since the 1970s and has been publishing books since 1980. His subjects have included Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Rimbaud, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Nashe and William Shakespeare. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005. Nicholl was educated at King's College, Cambridge.