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Peter Ackroyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Ackroyd CBE (born 5 October, 1949, East Acton, Middlesex) is an English novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. Peter Ackroyd's mother worked in...
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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. On his return from Yale, he worked for The Spectator...
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PETER ACKROYD, POSTMODERNIST PLAY AND CHATTERTON ... Well-known in Britain, less generally known in the States, Peter Ackroyd is representative of a new breed of British novelists who can loosely be termed postmodernist.
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A bibliography of Peter Ackroyd's books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. ... FantasticFiction > Authors A > Peter Ackroyd...
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Iain Sinclair remarked that Ackroyd's grandly ambitious London: The Biography "very rapidly announces itself as Peter Ackroyd: The Autobiography". ... Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd (1999) by Susana Onega is the first full-length study of Ackroyd's 'historiographic metafiction'.
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Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949 and educated at St. Benedict’s School, Ealing. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge with a Double First in English and then won a research fellowship to study at Yale University from 1971-73. At Cambridge Ackroyd’s main interest was poetry.
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Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction. His most recent books include the biographies Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More and the novels The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America, and The Plato Papers.
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Books by Peter Ackroyd: London: The Biography, Hawksmoor, Dickens: Public Life & Private Passions, Shakespeare: The Biography, Albion, Chatterton, The Clerkenwell Tales, The Life of Thomas More, Blake, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem ... Peter Ackroyd is composed of at least 2 distinct authors (edit assignments).
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Information about Peter Ackroyd ... A collection of news and information related to Peter Ackroyd published by Tribune Company sources. ... Topics > Arts and Culture > Peter Ackroyd...
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Peter Ackroyd (CBE) is a master of the historical novel: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde won the Somerset Maugham Award; Hawksmoor was awarded both the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize;
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