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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 Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards.
- British
- 1976–present
- Author, critic
- London: The Biography Peter Ackroyd.
- Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1) Peter Ackroyd.
- Hawksmoor Peter Ackroyd.
- Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2) Peter Ackroyd.
He also produced a variety of biography and fiction works in addition to literary fiction. He also got to be a book critic, television and radio broadcaster at some point. Ackroyd was honored with the CBE award in 2003. “Foundation” by Peter Ackroyd tells the epic history of the founding of England.
by Peter Ackroyd (Author) 4.5 243 4.0 on Goodreads 258 ratings. Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close.
- Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors. 4.04 · 4789 Ratings · 497 Reviews · published 2011 · 19 editions.
- Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I. 4.05 · 3401 Ratings · 330 Reviews · published 2012 · 22 editions. Tudors: A History of England Volume II (History of…
- Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution. 4.00 · 2207 Ratings · 247 Reviews · published 2014 · 17 editions.
- Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo. 4.04 · 1024 Ratings · 106 Reviews · published 2016 · 3 editions.
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Sep 10, 2013 · "An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today." ― Daily Express (UK) In Foundation, acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd tells the epic story of England itself. He takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king ...
The. Peter Ackroyd CBE is an English novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. Peter Ackroyd's mother worked in the personnel department of an engineering firm, his father having left the family home when Ackroyd was a baby. He was reading newspapers by the age of 5 and, at 9, wrote a play about ...
