The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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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