Leslie Silbert
Leslie Silbert, daughter of Watergate prosecutor Earl J. Silbert, is an American writer who has worked as a private investigator. In 2004, she published her first novel The Intelligencer, a spy story based on an incident in the life of the British 16th-century author Christopher Marlowe.
Silbert was inspired to write the novel when studying Elizabethan drama at Oxford University. On returning to New York City, she joined a private investigation business where she was guided by a former CIA agent. After working there for about a year, she left to devote her time to writing her novel.
The Intellegencer has been translated into Dutch as De verspieder, German as Der Marlowe-Code, Polish as Szpieg, wieczny tułacz, Spanish as El informante, Portuguese as A anatomia do segredo, French as Le manuscrit du maître-espion : roman and Croatian as Obavještajac.
