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
The Great Fire of London (1982)
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Hawksmoor (1985)
Chatterton (1987)
First Light (1989)
English Music (1992)
The House of Doctor Dee (1993)
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)
aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
Milton in America (1996)
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 Canterbury Tales: A Retelling (2009)
Three Brothers (2013)
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Hawksmoor (1985)
Chatterton (1987)
First Light (1989)
English Music (1992)
The House of Doctor Dee (1993)
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)
aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
Milton in America (1996)
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 Canterbury Tales: A Retelling (2009)
Three Brothers (2013)
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)
Ezra Pound and His World (1980) (see Ezra Pound)
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 Mystery of Charles Dickens (2002) (see Charles Dickens)
Illustrated London (2003)
Brief Lives - Chaucer (2004)
Shakespeare: A Biography (2005) (see William Shakespeare)
The Thames (2007)
Poe: A Life Cut Short (2008) (see Edgar Allan Poe)
Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (2008)
Venice (2009)
A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare (2010) (see William Shakespeare)
The English Ghost (2010)
London Under (2011)
The Death of King Arthur (2011)
Foundation: The History of England Volume I (2011)
Wilkie Collins (2012) (see Wilkie Collins)
Tudors: A History of England Volume II (2012)
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag (1979)
Ezra Pound and His World (1980) (see Ezra Pound)
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 Mystery of Charles Dickens (2002) (see Charles Dickens)
Illustrated London (2003)
Brief Lives - Chaucer (2004)
Shakespeare: A Biography (2005) (see William Shakespeare)
The Thames (2007)
Poe: A Life Cut Short (2008) (see Edgar Allan Poe)
Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (2008)
Venice (2009)
A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare (2010) (see William Shakespeare)
The English Ghost (2010)
London Under (2011)
The Death of King Arthur (2011)
Foundation: The History of England Volume I (2011)
Wilkie Collins (2012) (see Wilkie Collins)
Tudors: A History of England Volume II (2012)
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 (1981) 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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