Marlowe's Ghost: 01/01/2010

Friday, January 22, 2010

The Telegram: Local Author wins international award

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2009

By Ashley Fitzpatrick

St. John's-based author Daryl Pinksen has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2009 Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards.

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Daryl Pinksen, author of Marlowe's Ghost

On the morning of May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe met with three associates in the English intelligence network. Days earlier, a list of charges against him that included heresy, blasphemy and treason had been delivered to the Privy Council. Later that evening, the Queen's Coroner was summoned to their meeting place. A body lay on the floor. After an inquest, the dead man was taken to a nearby churchyard busy at the time receiving victims of the plague. According to the official report, England's foremost playwright was interred without fanfare or marker. Soon, plays attributed to William Shakespeare began to appear on the London stage, plays so undeniably similar to Marlowe's that noted scholars have since declared that Shakespeare wrote as if he had been Marlowe's apprentice. Marlowe's Ghost explores the possibility that persecution of a writer who dared to question authority may have led to the greatest literary cover-up of all time.

Friday, January 22, 2010

The Telegram: Local Author wins international award

Daryl Pinksen, author of Marlowe's Ghost

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