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Peter Ackroyd CBE, 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 Chaplin and Sir Thomas More , he won the ...
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Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by English writer Peter Ackroyd....
- Peter Aykroyd
Peter Ackroyd 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 Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread ...
Peter Ackroyd. Peter Ackroyd is unusual in being equally feted as a novelist and biographer. His facility in both was not, he says, a cause for celebration: in the literary world, ‘I was treated with derision and contempt.’. Ackroyd’s novels and biographies are closely entwined, the non-fiction providing the background for novels such as ...
Born. in East Acton, London, The United Kingdom. October 05, 1949. Genre. Biography, Fiction, Poetry. edit data. Peter Ackroyd CBE is an English novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London.
Jan 18, 2013 · “He is the only English king, after the time of the Normans, who has never been placed within a royal tomb,” Peter Ackroyd writes in “Foundation,” his rambling, affectionate new history of the...
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