About Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is a highly acclaimed historian, biographer, poet, and novelist. He was born in London and studied at both Cambridge and Yale universities.
Novels
Ezra Pound and His World (1980)
The Great Fire of London (1982)
The House of Doctor Dee (1983)
The Last Will and Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Hawksmoor (1985)
Milton in America (1986)
Chatterton (1987)
First Light (1989)
English Music (1992)
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)
aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
The Plato Papers (1999)
The Clerkenwell Tales (2003)
The Lambs of London (2004)
The Fall of Troy (2006)
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008)
The Great Fire of London (1982)
The House of Doctor Dee (1983)
The Last Will and Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Hawksmoor (1985)
Milton in America (1986)
Chatterton (1987)
First Light (1989)
English Music (1992)
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)
aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
The Plato Papers (1999)
The Clerkenwell Tales (2003)
The Lambs of London (2004)
The Fall of Troy (2006)
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008)
Collections
London Lickpenny (poems) (1973)
Country Life (poems) (1978)
The Diversions of Purley (poems) (1987)
The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures (2001)
Country Life (poems) (1978)
The Diversions of Purley (poems) (1987)
The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures (2001)
Non fiction series
Voyages Through Time
Escape from Earth (2003)
In The Beginning (2003)
Cities of Blood (2004)
Kingdom of the Dead (2004)
Escape from Earth (2003)
In The Beginning (2003)
Cities of Blood (2004)
Kingdom of the Dead (2004)
Non fiction
Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism (1976)
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag (1979)
T.S. Eliot (1984)
Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision (1987)
Dickens (1990) (see Charles Dickens)
Blake: A Biography (1995)
The Life of Thomas More (1998)
London: The Biography (2000)
Turner (2002)
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (2002)
The English Imagination (2002)
The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2002) (see Charles Dickens)
Illustrated London (2003)
Brief Lives - Chaucer (2004)
Shakespeare: A Biography (2004) (see William Shakespeare)
The Thames (2007)
Poe: A Life Cut Short (2008) (see Edgar Allan Poe)
Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (2008)
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag (1979)
T.S. Eliot (1984)
Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision (1987)
Dickens (1990) (see Charles Dickens)
Blake: A Biography (1995)
The Life of Thomas More (1998)
London: The Biography (2000)
Turner (2002)
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (2002)
The English Imagination (2002)
The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2002) (see Charles Dickens)
Illustrated London (2003)
Brief Lives - Chaucer (2004)
Shakespeare: A Biography (2004) (see William Shakespeare)
The Thames (2007)
Poe: A Life Cut Short (2008) (see Edgar Allan Poe)
Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (2008)
Awards
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Peter Ackroyd recommends
 The Portrait of Mr. W.H. (1904) Oscar Wilde "The Portrait of Mr W.H. is quintessential Wilde, introducing paradox into the realm of speculation and wit into the sphere of art." |  Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge (1975) Iain Sinclair "A wonderful poem." |  The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (1980) Elizabeth Bowen "If there is anything to the catchphrase "felt life", it is here...Many of her stories start like Saki and end like Edgar Allan Poe. It is that paradox which gives the edge to her writing and contributes to the sharpness of her vison." | |
 The Scarlet Boy (1998) Patrick Gale and Tom Wakefield "A novelist who knows exactly what he's doing." |
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