In 1943, Roberta Ballantine – a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and English major interested in drama - graduated from Pomona College.

Reading Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s works, she became convinced Marlowe wrote them all.

Years intervened before she could create a library and gather microfilm and printed material from the Folger, Huntington, Lambeth Palace, and British Libraries, from Eton, the Frari, Inter-Library Loan, English State Papers, DNB and more, and letters from scholarly, knowledgeable writers.

In her workroom on a remote Florida farm, she began, in 1978, twenty-eight-years of dedicated research into the mysterious life of Christopher Marlowe.