| Peter Ackroyd  Born: 5-Oct-1949
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Great Fire of London Father: Graham Ackroyd
Mother: Audrey Whiteside
High School: St. Benedict's School, Ealing, London
High School: MA, Clare College, Cambridge University (1971)
University: Yale University (two years)
Commander of the British Empire 2002 New Year's Eve Honours List
The Spectator Literary Editor (1973-77)
The London Times Chief Book Reviewer (1986-)
Royal Society 1984
Author of books:
London Lickpenny (1973, poetry)
Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism (1976, criticism)
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession (1979)
Ezra Pound and His World (1980, biography)
The Great Fire of London (1982, novel)
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983, novel)
T. S. Eliot: A Life (1984, biography)
Hawksmoor (1985, novel)
The Diversions of Purley (1987, poetry)
Chatterton (1987, novel)
Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision (1987)
The Life of Thomas More (1988, biography)
First Light (1989, novel)
Dickens (1990, biography)
An Introduction to Dickens (1991, criticism)
English Music (1992, novel)
The House of Doctor Dee (1993, novel)
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders (1995, novel)
Blake (1996, biography)
Milton in America (1996, novel)
The Plato Papers (1999, novel)
London: The Biography (2000, nonfiction)
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (2002)
The Clerkenwell Tales (2003, novel)
The Lambs of London (2004, novel)
Shakespeare: The Biography (2005, biography)
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