Peter Ackroyd - Works, Television / documentary

Writer, born in Acton, London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and spent some time at Yale. He is chiefly known for his biographical studies of Pound, T S Eliot, Dickens, and Thomas More, and also for his fiction, which includes The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), Hawksmoor (1985, Whitbread), First Light (1989), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994), Milton in America (1996), and The Lambs of London (2004). His other work includes poetry, television criticism, and regular reviews for The Times since 1986. Later works include The Life of Thomas More (1998), The Plato Papers, a Novel (1999), London: The Biography (2001), and Shakespeare: The Biography (2005). In 2003 appeared the first two volumes of his Voyages Through Time series for children: The Beginning and Escape from Earth.

Peter Ackroyd (born October 5, 1949, London) is an English author.

His career started in poetry, including works such as London Lickpenny (1973) and The Diversions of Purley (1987).

Ackroyd worked at The Spectator magazine between 1973 and 1977 and became joint managing editor in 1978.

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.

Works

Fiction

The Great Fire of London – 1982 The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde – 1983 Hawksmoor – 1985 Chatterton – 1987 (shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1987) First Light – 1989 English Music – 1992 The House of Doctor Dee – 1993 Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem – 1994 (also published as 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

Adult Non-fiction

Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism – 1976 Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession – 1979 T. A Life – 1984 Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision – 1987 The Life of Thomas More – 1988 Ezra Pound and his World – 1989 Dickens – 1990 An Introduction to Dickens – 1991 Blake – 1996 London: The Biography – 2000 Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination – 2002 Shakespeare: The Biography – 2005

Children's non-fiction (Voyages Through Time series)

The Beginning – 2003 Escape From Earth – 2004 Kingdom of the Dead – 2004 Cities of Blood – 2004 Ancient Greece – 2005 Ancient Rome – 2005

Plays

The Mystery of Charles Dickens – 2000

Television / documentary

BBC unless otherwise noted

2004, London (television) 2006 The Romantics