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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.
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.
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 has 186 books on Goodreads with 409355 ratings. Peter Ackroyd’s most popular book is London: The Biography.
Peter Aykroyd (November 19, 1955 – November 6, 2021) was a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer. Biography. Born to Lorraine (1918–2018) and Peter Hugh Aykroyd (1922–2020) [1] in Ottawa, he was the younger brother of comedian Dan Aykroyd. [2] . Along with his older brother he was in the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto.
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.’.
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.
