NEW YORK – Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet,” an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare’s son from the bubonic plague, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction.

Hamnet also won the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. Writers and Company 58:18 How the tragic story of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet inspired Maggie O’Farrell’s prize-winning novel ...

New research examining a fragment of a 17th century letter addressed to “good Mrs Shakspaire” suggests that William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway was happier than previously thought.