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Peter Ackroyd

Born

in East Acton, London, The United Kingdom

October 05, 1949

Genre

Biography, Fiction, Poetry

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Peter Ackroyd CBE is an English novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London.

Peter Ackroyd's mother worked in the personnel department of an engineering firm, his father having left the family home when Ackroyd was a baby. He was reading newspapers by the age of 5 and, at 9, wrote a play about Guy Fawkes. Reputedly, he first realized he was gay at the age of 7.

Ackroyd was educated at St. Benedict's, Ealing and at Clare College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a double first in English. In 1972, he was a Mellon Fellow at Yale University in the United States. The result of this fellowship was Ackroyd's Notes for a New Culture, written when he was only 22 and eventually published in 1976. The ...more

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'Alfred Hitchcock was an overgrown schoolboy, with a schoolboy's obsession with sex': The director who used and abused his leading ladies

His marriage was sexless – ‘that’s why they call me the celibated director’. He slapped Joan Fontaine and left Grace Kelly covered in bruises. And he made a very indecent proposal to Tippi Hedren. A brilliant new book by Peter Ackroyd gets to the heart of Alfred Hitchcock’s cruelly controlling...

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	London: The Biography 3.96 avg rating — 5,930 ratings — published 2000 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 5,448 ratings — published 2011 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hawksmoor 3.46 avg rating — 4,869 ratings — published 1985 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 3,647 ratings — published 2012 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets 3.46 avg rating — 3,304 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial of Elizabeth Cree 3.70 avg rating — 2,672 ratings — published 1994 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,415 ratings — published 2014 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare: The Biography 4.03 avg rating — 2,299 ratings — published 2005 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dickens 3.89 avg rating — 2,350 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (adapter), Geoffrey Chaucer, Nick Bantock (Illustrator) 3.57 avg rating — 2,552 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
for ever.”
― Peter Ackroyd, First Light

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“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

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“I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

tags: inspiration, time-passing

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