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Peter Ackroyd (born October 5, 1949 in London) is a British author.

Ackroyd won a double first in English at Clare College, Cambridge as an undergraduate and was a Mellon Fellow at Yale, in the United States. His career started in poetry, including works such as London Lickpenny (1973) and The Diversions of Purley (1987). He later moved into fiction and has become an acclaimed author, including shortlisting for the Booker Prize in 1987.

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 2002 he followed this with the monumental cultural history of England, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination.

Ackroyd worked at The Spectator magazine between 1973 and 1977 and became joint managing editor in 1978. He was nominated a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984 and is currently a regular radio broadcaster and book critic.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Fiction 1.2 Non-fiction 2 Plays 3 External links

Works

Fiction

• The Great Fire of London – 1982
• The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde – 1983
• Hawksmoor – 1985
• Chatterton – 1987 (shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1987)
• First Light – 1989
• English Music – 1992
• The House of Doctor Dee – 1993
• Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem – 1994 (also published as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree)
• Milton in America – 1996
• The Plato Papers – 1999
• The Clerkenwell Tales – 2003
• The Lambs of London – 2004

Non-fiction

• Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism – 1976
• Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession – 1979
• T. S. Eliot; A Life – 1984
• Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision – 1987
• The Life of Thomas More – 1988
• Ezra Pound and his World – 1989
• Dickens – 1990
• An Introduction to Dickens – 1991
• Blake – 1996
• London: The Biography – 2000
• Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination – 2002
• Shakespeare: The Biography – 2005

Plays

• The Mystery of Charles Dickens– 2000

External links

• A more in-depth biography
• Guardian Books "Author Page", with profile and links to further articles.
• Excerpt from London: The Biography
• 1991 Audio Interview with Peter Ackroyd Discussing the Life of Charles Dickens - RealAudio (29 min 6 s)
• Peter Ackroyd at the Internet Book List
• Peter Ackroyd at the Internet Book Database of Fiction
• Peter Ackroyd at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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