Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd CBE (East Acton, Middelseks, 5 oktober 1949) is in Ingelske biograaf, romanskriuwer en kritikus mei benammen niget oan de skiednis en kultuer fan Londen. Foar syn romans oer Ingelske skiednis en kultuer en syn biografyen fan, ûnder oaren, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot en Sir Thomas More ûntfong er de Somerset Maugham Award en twa Whitbread Awards en tal fan oare prizen.
Hy stiet bekend om it grut tal wurken, dy't er makke hat, it ferskaat oan stilen dêryn, de feardigens yn it oannimmen fan ûnderskate stimmen en de djipte fan syn ûndersyk.

Yn 2003 waard er Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Wurk

Fiksje

1971 Ouch! (poëzy)
1973 London Lickpenny (poëzy)
1982 The Great Fire of London (roman)
1983 The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
1985 Hawksmoor (roman)
1987 The Diversions of Purley and Other Poems (poëzy)
1987 Chatterton
1989 First Light
1992 English Music
1993 The House of Doctor Dee
1994 Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (ek útbrocht as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree)
1996 Milton in America
1999 The Plato Papers
2000 The Mystery of Charles Dickens
2003 The Clerkenwell Tales (Nederlânske oersetting Nacht over Clerkenwell)
2004 The Lambs of London (Nederlânske oersetting Mary Lamb)
2006 The Fall of Troy
2008 The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
2009 The Canterbury Tales – A Retelling

Non-Fiksje

1976 Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism
1978 Country Life
1979 Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag, the History of an Obsession
1980 Ezra Pound and His World
1984 T.S. Eliot
1987 Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision
1989 Ezra Pound and his World (1989)
1990 Dickens
1991 Introduction to Dickens
1995 Blake
1998 The Life of Thomas More
2000 London: The Biography
2001 The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures
2002 Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion
2002 Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
2003 The Beginning
2003 Illustrated London
2004 Escape From Earth
2004 Ancient Egypt
2004 Chaucer
2004 Shakespeare: A Biography (Nederlânske oersetting Shakespeare. De biografy)
2005 Ancient Greece
2005 Ancient Rome
2005 Turner
2007 Thames: Sacred River
2008 Coffee with Dickens (mei Paul Schlicke)
2008 Newton
2008 Poe: A Life Cut Short
2009 Venice: Pure City
2010 The English Ghost
2011 London Under
2011 The History of England, Volume I: Foundation
2012 The History of England, Volume II: Reformation (ek ferskynd ûnder de titel: The History of England, Volume II: Tudors)

Telefyzje

2002 Dickens (BBC)
2004 London (BBC)
2006 The Romantics (BBC)
2007 London Visions (BBC)
2008 Peter Ackroyd's Thames (ITV)
2009 Peter Ackroyd's Venice (BBC)

Keppelings om utens

(in) Wiidweidige biografy op contemporarywriters.com
(in) Audio-ynterview mei Peter Ackroyd oer Charles Dickens (sa'n 29 minuten)