Peter Ackroyd
1949
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: novel, polemical lampoon, drama fiction, sketch story
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Clare College, Yale University, St Benedict's School
occupation: poet, writer, literary historian, historian, novelist, playwright, literary critic, biographer, prosaist, journalist, radio editor
award received: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Somerset Maugham Award
position held: Booker Prize judge
Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. 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, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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