REVISED AND AUGMENTED WHAT A FIND!! MUST BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED!!! PLUS----there are L-O-A-D-S of illustrations!! .......all about William Shak's French father................ THE CLASSIC BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!! Charles Knight (15 March 1791 - 9 March 1873) was an English publisher and author. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father, but on completion of his indentures he took up journalism and had an interest in several newspaper speculations, including the Windsor, Slough and Eton Express which continues to this day. In 1823, in conjunction with friends he had made as publisher (1820-1821) of The Etonian, he started Knight's Quarterly Magazine, to which Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Derwent Coleridge and Thomas Macaulay contributed. It lasted for only six issues, but it made Knight's name as publisher and author, beginning a career which lasted over forty years.