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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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 215
- Total plays
- 2,553
Peter Ackroyd (born October 5 1949, London) is an English author. Ackroyd has always shown a great interest in the city of London and one of his most recent works, London: The Biography, is an extensive and thorough discussion of London through the ages. In 1994 he was interviewed about the London Psychogeographical Association in an article for The Observer where he remarked: "I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory, the place, the past speaks.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,576x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,104x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,483x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,272x
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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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Key dates
- Born
- 5 October 1949
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- literary scholar
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- poetry
- Genre
- sketch story
- Image
- Peter Ackroyd in 2007 (cropped).jpg
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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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