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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 ...
Feb 18, 2024 · The great biographer and novelist, now 74, shows no sign of slowing. Now he’s produced a history of the English soul, and declares himself ‘eager to go on’.
Apr 18, 2024 · 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.
Nov 22, 2021 · By Variety. Peter Aykroyd, a former cast member and writer on “Saturday Night Live” and brother to Dan Aykroyd, has died. He was 66. A cause of death was not released. Aykroyd’s passing was ...
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. Ackroyd is a cornerstone of Britain's literary landscape, with acclaimed novels, retellings of Chaucer and Mallory, and other major works of non-fiction.
Sep 3, 2005 · Sat 3 Sep 2005 19.32 EDT. L ike Shakespeare, the subject of his latest work, Peter Ackroyd is a man who is not big on personal detail. 'It's the books that count,' is his stock defence against...
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.
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