Peter Ackroyd (1) (1949–)
Autor/a de London: The Biography
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Sobre l'autor
Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. He graduated from Cambridge University and was a Fellow at Yale (1971-1973). A critically acclaimed and versatile writer, Ackroyd began his career while at Yale, publishing two volumes of poetry. He continued writing poetry until he began delving into mostra'n més historical fiction with The Great Fire of London (1982). A constant theme in Ackroyd's work is the blending of past, present, and future, often paralleling the two in his biographies and novels. Much of Ackroyd's work explores the lives of celebrated authors such as Dickens, Milton, Eliot, Blake, and More. Ackroyd's approach is unusual, injecting imagined material into traditional biographies. In The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), his work takes on an autobiographical form in his account of Wilde's final years. He was widely praised for his believable imitation of Wilde's style. He was awarded the British Whitbread Award for biography in 1984 of T.S. Eliot, and the Whitbread Award for fiction in 1985 for his novel Hawksmoor. Ackroyd currently lives in London and publishes one or two books a year. He still considers poetry to be his first love, seeing his novels as an extension of earlier poetic work. (Bowker Author Biography) Peter Ackroyd is the award-winning author of four biographies, most recently the national bestseller "The Life of Thomas More", as well as ten novels, including "Chatterton" & "Hawksmoor". He lives in London, where he is at work on his next book, "London: The Biography. (Publisher Provided) Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in London. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Peter Ackroyd
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (2011) 1,246 exemplars
Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo (2016) 336 exemplars
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (2018) 251 exemplars
William Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits 2 exemplars
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplars
Peter Ackroyd 5 Books Collection Set History of England Series Vol 1-5 (Foundation, Tudors, Civil War, Revolution,… (2020) 1 exemplars
Jack the Ripper and the East End 1 exemplars
Dickens - (1) Secrets; (2) Blazing Away [DVD] 1 exemplars
Dickens - (3) Terror to the End [DVD] 1 exemplars
Dickens (dvd) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (1741) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 193 exemplars
Method and theory : proceedings of the London 1985 Achaemenid history workshop (1988) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Nom oficial
- Ackroyd, Peter Warwick
- Data de naixement
- 1949-10-05
East Acton, London - Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- East Acton, Middlesex, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
- Educació
- Clare College, University of Cambridge (MA|1971)
Yale University (Mellon Fellow 1972-1973)
St. Benedict's School, Ealing - Professions
- novelist
biographer
tv writer/presenter
poet
historian
critic - Relacions
- Kuhn, Brian (partner)
- Organitzacions
- The Spectator
The Times - Premis i honors
- Mellon Fellow
British Book Award (1991)
Commander, Order of the British Empire (2003)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1984)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1998)
Whitbread Prize for Biography (1984) (mostra-les totes 7)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) - Agent
- Sheil Land Associates Ltd
- Biografia breu
- Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of London Under and the bestselling London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. He has won a number of accolades including the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. He holds a CBE for services to literature (The Browser).
Membres
Converses
Group Read: Peter Ackroyd - History of England series a 2015 Category Challenge (juliol 2018)
1001 Group Read - January, 2013: Hawksmoor a 1001 Books to read before you die (agost 2013)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 80
- També de
- 19
- Membres
- 28,703
- Popularitat
- #700
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 644
- ISBN
- 730
- Llengües
- 25
- Preferit
- 79
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