Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
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Name (Hebrew)
אקרויד, פיטר, 1949-
Name (Latin)
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
Other forms of name
Akroĭd, Piter, 1949-
Date of birth
1949
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Literary criticism
Biography
Criticism
London (England)--History
Novels
Occupation
Biographers
Critics
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1949
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MARC
Sources of Information
- Information from 678 field, converted Feb. 23, 2018(b. 1949)
- Peter Ackroyd; London's great chronicler, who happens himself to be queer ( (Queer City by Peter Ackroyd review--a celebration of gay London, via The guardian website, posted May 31, 2017, viewed April 27, 2018) )
- Revolution, 2017:ECIP title page (Peter Ackroyd)
- Wikipedia, April 27, 2018(Peter Ackroyd, CBE, FRSL (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London; born East Acton, London, England; Ackroyd had a long-term relationship with Brian Kuhn, an American dancer he met while at Yale; in the late 1980s, Ackroyd moved to Devon with Kuhn. However, Kuhn was then diagnosed with AIDS, and died in 1994, after which Ackroyd moved back to London; in a 2004 interview, Ackroyd said that he had not been in a relationship since Kuhn's death and was "very happy being celibate")
- His London lickpenny, 1973.
- Khudozhestvennoe svoeobrazie romanov Pitera Akroĭda, 2000.
- BL AL recd. 20 Oct. 1988(Peter Ackroyd, born 5 Oct. 1949)
- סיפורי קנטרברי, תשע"ג 2013:
Wikipedia description:
Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", 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 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, Ackroyd won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. 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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