SHAKESPEARE'S KINSMEN

About the Book

While visiting an English relative, Adam Branch fi nds an Elizabethan manuscript that could be in William Shakespeare’s own hand. In his effort to have the document authenticated, Branch becomes enmeshed in a deadly game of cat and mouse with someone supporting another candidate as author of the immortal plays. Carefully researched,Shakespeare’s Kinsmen brings to life the 16th and 17th century world of Shakespeare and his potential rivals for authorship: Edward de Vere, Christopher Marlowe, and Francis Bacon, as well as the contemporaneous Shakespeare Authorship Question waged by their advocates.

About the Author

Having read and attended all of Shakespeare’s plays, John R. Hauge has written a murder mystery that echoes their depth of characterization and joy of language as well as the passion that has caused others to spend their lifetimes championing other possible authors. Mr. Hauge, a graduate of Dartmouth College, Oxford University, and Harvard Business School, has spent nearly 30 years in the world of finance – governmental (U.S. Treasury Department), private (CFO of a wireless data company), and developmental (currently the CFO of the Inter-American Development Bank). His first murder mystery, an opera, was Verdi Overtures. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and son.