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Peter Ackroyd
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 October 1949
- Works
- 165
Top works
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Cities of blood
- T. S. Ilyūṭ
- Strangers to correction
- The Canterbury Tales
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1949-10-05 ) 5 October 1949 (age 76) , East Acton , London, England, United Kingdom
- Occupation
- Novelist, biographer, critic
- Nationality
- British
- Alma mater
- Clare College, Cambridge ( BA )
- Period
- 1976–present
- Genre
- Biography drama essays fiction literary criticism non-fiction poetry short stories
- Subject
- London and its inhabitants; English history and culture
- Partner
- Brian Kuhn , (1980; died 1994)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- television presenter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- poetry
- Genre
- sketch story
- Image
- Peter Ackroyd in 2007 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1949-10-05
- member of
- Royal Society
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Peter Ackroyd
- Commons category
- Peter Ackroyd
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- has written for
- The New York Times
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Ackroyd CBE, FRSL (born 5 October 1949) is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
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, Ackroyd won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards.
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