Peter Ackroyd





Peter Ackroyd

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October 05, 1949 in East Acton, London, The United Kingdom

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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 Guy Fawkes. Reputedly, he first realized he was gay at the age of 7.

Ackroyd was educated at St. Benedict's, Ealing and at Clare College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a double first in English. In 1972, he was a Mellon Fellow at Yale University in the United States. The result of this fellowship was Ackroyd's Notes for a New Culture, written when he was only 22 and eventually published in 1976. The...more


Average rating: 3.78 · 18990 ratings · 1823 reviews · 115 distinct works
London: The Biography
3.98 of 5 stars 398 avg rating — 1004 ratings — published 2000 — 25 editions
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The Canterbury Tales
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Hawksmoor
3.59 of 5 stars 359 avg rating — 643 ratings — published 1985 — 17 editions
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Shakespeare: The Biography
3.88 of 5 stars 388 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions
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The Lambs of London
2.98 of 5 stars 298 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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Chatterton
3.65 of 5 stars 365 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions
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The Casebook of Victor Fran...
3.29 of 5 stars 329 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 2008
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London Under: The Secret Hi...
3.3 of 5 stars 330 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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Dickens
4.03 of 5 stars 403 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions
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The House of Doctor Dee
3.3 of 5 stars 330 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions
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“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
for ever.”
Peter Ackroyd, First Light

“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”
Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.”
Peter Ackroyd, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

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