Chasing Cleopatra: Peter Stothard Writes About the Queen
The Queen
After seven tries, Peter Stothard, the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, has finally written the book on Cleopatra that he always wanted to. Here he recounts how the sole surviving example of her signature helped inspire him to write.
On New Year’s Eve 2010, three weeks before the beginning of the Arab Spring, I was in Alexandria to try for the eighth time to complete a book about Cleopatra.
