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Peter AckroydCBE, FRSL(born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplinand Sir Thomas More, he won the ...
Peter Ackroyd, British novelist, critic, biographer, and scholar whose technically innovative novels present an unconventional view of history. His notable works include the novel Hawksmoor and biographies on such figures as T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Thomas More.
Peter Ackroyd has 185 books on Goodreads with 410351 ratings. Peter Ackroyd’s most popular book is London: The Biography.
The History of England Series. 7 primary works • 7 total works. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river the Thames, acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself in a landmark six-part history.
Complete order of Peter Ackroyd books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Novelist, biographer and poet Peter Ackroyd was born in London on 5 October 1949. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, and studied at Yale University as a Mellon Fellow, where he completed Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism, published in 1976.
Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, Wilkie Collins and Thomas More and of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River.
