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Peter Ackroyd
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 October 1949
- Works
- 165
Top works
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Cities of blood
- T. S. Ilyūṭ
- Strangers to correction
- The Canterbury Tales
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- Listeners
- 215
- Total plays
- 2,553
Peter Ackroyd (born October 5 1949, London) is an English author. Ackroyd has always shown a great interest in the city of London and one of his most recent works, London: The Biography, is an extensive and thorough discussion of London through the ages. In 1994 he was interviewed about the London Psychogeographical Association in an article for The Observer where he remarked: "I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory, the place, the past speaks.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 85,117x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,254x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,886x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,328x
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Quotes
- “The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as "the steam of the social soup".”
- “No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.”
- “London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.”
- “What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.”
- “The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.”
- “He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1949-10-05 ) 5 October 1949 (age 76) , East Acton , London, England, United Kingdom
- Occupation
- Novelist, biographer, critic
- Nationality
- British
- Alma mater
- Clare College, Cambridge ( BA )
- Period
- 1976–present
- Genre
- Biography drama essays fiction literary criticism non-fiction poetry short stories
- Subject
- London and its inhabitants; English history and culture
- Partner
- Brian Kuhn , (1980; died 1994)
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Peter Ackroyd CBE, FRSL (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.