by Stephen Marlowe · Jonathan Cape Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224024136
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«The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus» is the historical novel by Stephen Marlowe, published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in hardback (569 pages, in English).
In this novel, Christopher Columbus recalls his life in the first person: his origins, his years as a navigator, and the 1492 voyage that takes him to America. Marlowe presents him with a 20th-century mindset, reviewing his adventures and misadventures with irony; the work deliberately alters historical details to offer a human portrait of the explorer.
First edition published in 1987. The author, born Milton Lesser, legally adopted the name Stephen Marlowe in 1958.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and biographical fiction interested in Christopher Columbus and the age of discovery.
Stephen Marlowe was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created for the 1955 novel The Second Longest Night. Lesser also wrote using the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C.H. Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder, and Ellery Queen.
