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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.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 88 ratings · 21 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impre 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	History Play 3.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Xenophobe's Guide To The Dutch 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil, the impossible life of Mary Benson 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sellised nad on...hollandlased 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Germany 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Bavaria, 2nd 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Madeira 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Amsterdam by Rodney Bolt, James Alexander, Caroline Mudd 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: