Ackroyd, Peter
Ackroyd, Peter ( 1949 – ),novelist, biographer, poet, and reviewer. He had a Catholic upbringing in west London and was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, Clare College, Cambridge, and Yale. From 1973 to 1982 he was on the staff of the Spectator , joining The Times as its chief book reviewer in 1986 . His first published work was a volume of poems, London Lickpenny ( 1973 ), republished with another collection, Country Life ( 1982 ), in The Diversions of Purley ( 1987 ). He has also published two pieces of cultural criticism, Notes for a New Culture (an essay on Modernism , 1976 ) and a study of transvestism (Dressing Up, 1979 ). He has written lives of Ezra Pound ( 1980 ), T. S. Eliot ( 1984 ), Dickens ( 1990 , with unorthodox authorial interventions), Sir T. More ( 1998 ) and Shakespeare ( 2005 ), and a ‘biography’ of...
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