Leslie Silbert

Leslie 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'' (2004), Polish as ''Szpieg, wieczny tułacz'' (2004), Spanish as ''El informante'' (2005), Portuguese as ''A anatomia do segredo'' (2006), French as ''Le manuscrit du maître-espion : roman'' (2007) and Croatian as ''Obavještajac'' (2008).

She is the daughter of Watergate prosecutor Earl J. Silbert. Provided by Wikipedia