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Ros Barber

Literary Intelligence: Writers as Spies

By Ros Barber

February 1, 2013

Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy was my first brush with the notion that writers were spies. At nine I was Harriet, furiously scribbling in my notebook as I peered under gates and through knot-holed fences in my neighborhood. I spied on my family too. Great fun, until my intelligence activities were discovered. Writers are natural…

The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber

The Marlowe Papers: New Excerpt

By Ros Barber

January 27, 2013

The Marlowe Papers is a historical novel told in poems about the life and mysterious “death” of Christopher Marlowe (available January 29, 2013).   On May 30, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now Christopher Marlowe reveals the truth: that his…

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