My Dark Lady: Shakespeare's Lost Play: Uncovered & Here Presented for the First Time

Dan Walker is the pseudonym of a longtime member of the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable in Beverly Hills. Since graduating from Oxford University with a Masters degree, he has worked as a writer, producer, book editor and ghostwriter.

All these roles have supported Dan's early love of Shakespeare. He has, for instance, produced videos for the Roundtable featuring such experts as film critic, Charles Champlin and Charles Beauclerk, a descendant of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, debating the authorship question.

Like William Shakespeare, Dan was educated at a grammar school in Warwickshire. This gave him an early and very personal perspective on the authorship issue. Surveying the vast wealth of learning and wisdom in these peerless plays, he quickly concluded: "If I wasn't taught more than a fraction of this material as a schoolboy in the 1900s, it's unlikely that Shakespeare was taught all of it in the 1500s."

Dan recently attended a pre-release screening of "Anonymous" at Sony Studios. Here, he had an opportunity to congratulate director Roland Emmerich on his highly entertaining contribution to the authorship debate - a stirring movie that will inspire audiences to delve into the fascinating question: Who wrote these wonderful plays?

Dan's own answer, which avoids the extremes of Roland's discredited "Prince Tudor" double incest plot line, is detailed in his new novel, "My Dark Lady: Shakespeare's Lost Play." Dan's inspiration was a simple question: "Is there anything that the Dark Lady of the Sonnets wouldn't have known about the man who was Shakespeare?"

This richly detailed intellectual thriller takes readers on an unforgettable journey through Renaissance England. By focusing on the forbidden romance between Edward de Vere and Queen Elizabeth's most beautiful maid of honor, Dan has produced a completely riveting and surprisingly satisfying solution to the authorship riddle.