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Rodney Bolt


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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 Travel Writer of the Year awards in Germany and is the author of History Play, an invented biography of Christopher Marlowe (HarperCollins, 2004) and The Librettist of Venice, a biography of Lorenzo Da Ponte (Bloomsbury, 2006), which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Amsterdam. ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 845 ratings · 112 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors
The Xenophobe's Guide to th...
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As Good as God, as Clever a...
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The Librettist of Venice: T...
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Cadogan: Madeira & Porto Santo
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Amsterdam & the Randstad
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“On Sunday 11 October 1896, Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, insufferable to the end, died on his knees in church saying the Confession, ending a life of relentless success.”
― Rodney Bolt, As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil, the impossible life of Mary Benson
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“The Bensons were hopelessly literate. The offspring of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson, and his wife Mary, formed (said the composer Dame Ethyl Smyth) an ‘unpermissibly gifted family’.”
― Rodney Bolt, As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil by Rodney Bolt
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“Extract from ‘Dodo’ by Fred Benson: -
They sleep like hogs, she said, and they are very cheerful in the morning…It is very plebeian to be cheerful in the morning.”
― Rodney Bolt, As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil, the impossible life of Mary Benson
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