Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint Tots_Gift_Guide The result was a book

The result was a book that became an international phenomenon

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Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint Tots_Gift_Guide The result was a book*Winner of the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Life Writing* A wickedly entertaining (The New York Times) detective story that chronicles one Mississippi mans relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare. Following his divorce, down and out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began