Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd CBE, FRSL (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist 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, Charlie Chaplin 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.

For the British academic, see Peter Ackroyd (biblical scholar). For the Canadian actor and comedian, see Peter Aykroyd.

Peter Ackroyd

CBE FRSL
Ackroyd in 2007
Born (1949-10-05) 5 October 1949
East Acton, London, England, United Kingdom
OccupationAuthor, critic
NationalityBritish
Alma materClare College, Cambridge (BA)
Period1976–present
Genre
  • Biography
  • drama
  • essays
  • fiction
  • literary criticism
  • non-fiction
  • poetry
  • short stories
SubjectLondon and its inhabitants; English history and culture
PartnerBrian Kuhn
(1980; died 1994)

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.

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