Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular 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 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. 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. - Wikipedia
Works (50)

The Canterbury Tales

Hawksmoor

Dickens

Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

T.S. Eliot

Shakespeare

London - The Biography (London a Biography)

The house of Doctor Dee

Tudors

Foundation

Chatterton

Blake

London under

The last testament of Oscar Wilde

Alfred Hitchcock

The Fall of Troy

The Thames

Dressing Up

English music

Ancient Rome (Voyages Through Time)

Albion

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

First light

The Plato Papers

Charlie Chaplin

Ezra Pound and his world

The English ghost

Cities of blood

Poe

Introduction to Dickens

The beginning

Innovation

Kingdom of the dead

Escape From Earth (Voyages Through Time)

Newton

Queer City

Illustrated London

The Clerkenwell tales

The trial of Elizabeth Cree

Milton in America

Chaucer

Dickens' London

The Life of Thomas More (Anne of Green Gables Novels (Audio))

Mary Lamb

Wilkie Collins

Revolution

Three brothers

Jack the Ripper and the East End

Peter Ackroyd Voyages Through Time

Venice