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Peter Ackroyd è uno scrittore britannico. Peter Ackroyd È un biografo, romanziere e critico con un particolare interesse nella storia e la cultura di Londra. Per i suoi romanzi sulla storia e cultura inglese e le sue biografie di, tra gli altri, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Charles Chaplin e Tommaso Moro, vinse il ...
Peter Ackroyd. For the British academic, see Peter Ackroyd (biblical scholar). For the Canadian actor and comedian, see Peter Aykroyd. 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.
- British
- 1976–present
- Author, critic
Libri di Peter Ackroyd. Ritenuto uno dei grandi scrittori inglesi viventi. È autore di monumentali biografie, London: The Biography, Dickens, Chaucer, Blake, Turner, The Life of Thomas More, ha scritto romanzi storici che hanno ottenuto un grande successo di pubblico e di critica, quali The Clerkenwell Tales, Hawksmoor, The House of Doctor Dee .
18 apr 2024 · 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.
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18 feb 2024 · Tim Adams. The prodigious output of the great biographer and novelist, now 74, shows no sign of slowing. With distractions such as booze long abandoned, the ‘monkish’ figure has now produced a...
Biography. 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.
3 set 2005 · L ike Shakespeare, the subject of his latest work, Peter Ackroyd is a man who is not big on personal detail. 'It's the books that count,' is his stock defence against inquisitive journalists....
