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Peter Ackroyd

5 October 1949 -

Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular 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 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. - Wikipedia

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  • Cover of: T.S. Eliot: a life

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Subjects
History, Fiction, Biography, Social life and customs, London (england), fiction, Juvenile literature, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Civilization, England, fiction, Intellectual life, English Poets, Fiction, historical, London (england), history, Manners and customs, English Novelists, Physicists, Archaeologists, Astronautics, Excavations (Archaeology), Exploration, Exploration of outer space, Homes and haunts, Nonfiction, American Authors
Places
England, Great Britain, London (England), London, United States, Troy (Extinct city), Canterbury (England), Londres (Angleterre), Outer space, Turkey, Venice (Italy), America, Central America, Clerkenwell (London, England), Earth, Egypt, Londres (GB), Londres (Grande-Bretagne), Londyn, Londyn (Wielka Brytania), New Zealand, Paris, Rome, South America, Thames River (England)
People
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Arthur King, Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), William Blake (1757-1827), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), George Gordon Byron Byron Baron (1788-1824), Isaac Newton Sir (1642-1727), J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), John William Polidori (1795-1821), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), Henry VIII King of England (1491-1547), House of Stuart, House of Tudor, Isaac Newton (1642-1727), John Dee (1527-1608), John Milton (1608-1674), T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Time
19th century, 20th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, 16th century, 18th century, 1509-1547, 1660-1714, 1714-1837, 1800-1950, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Henry VII, 1485-1509, Henry VIII, 1509-1547, Middle English, 1100-1500, Revolution of 1688, Richard II, 1377-1399, Stuarts, 1603-1714, To 1485, To 1500, To 1806, To 1821, To 332 B.C., Tudors, 1485-1603, origines

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
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July 25, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Author Bio
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