Annal:1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
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Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors.
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
- 1992 Dagger-Nonfiction winner
- 1992 JT Black-Biography winner
- Score: 20.42
In 1593 the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging-house. The circumstances were shady, the official account—a violent quarrel over the bill, or “recknynge”—long regarded as dubious.
The Reckoning is the first full-length investigation of the killing, tracing Marlowe’s shadowy political dealings, his involvement in covert intelligence work, and the charges of heresy and homosexuality against him. There is critical new evidence about his three companions on that last day in Deptford…
