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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd 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.

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culture · English author (born 1949) · poet · writer · literary historian · historian · novelist · playwright · literary critic · biographer · prose writer · journalist · also Peter Ackroyd, Ackroyd

Born 5 October 1949 · Q319169

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Sex is not a single subject.
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I think William Blake is the most powerful and most significant philosopher or thinker in the course of English history.
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2026· 3 entries

Aug 18, 2026Documented record82% confidence

“Sex is not a single subject.”

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Aug 18, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“I think William Blake is the most powerful and most significant philosopher or thinker in the course of English history.”

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Apr 11, 2026Documented record69% confidence

BroadwayWorld: Peter Ackroyd

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2024· 2 entries

Dec 19, 2024Documented record69% confidence

Women's Wear Daily: Peter Ackroyd Named Campaign for Wool Chairman

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Feb 18, 2024Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Author Peter Ackroyd: ‘You eat a great deal of knowledge. You sick it up. And then you start again’

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2022· 1 entry

Apr 9, 2022Documented record69% confidence

Tehran Times: Audiobook of Peter Ackroyd’s “Poe: A Life Cut Short” available for Persian listeners

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2021· 1 entry

2021Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Introducing Swedenborg (The Swedenborg Society) ISBN 9780854482207

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2020· 1 entry

Nov 6, 2020Documented record69% confidence

Tehran Times: Peter Ackroyd’s “Poe: A Life Cut Short” comes to Iranian bookstores

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2018· 1 entry

Oct 10, 2018Documented record69% confidence

Yahoo: Peter Ackroyd’s ‘The History of England’ Headed For The Screen After Pulse Films Options Historical Book Series

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2017· 4 entries

May 31, 2017Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Queer City by Peter Ackroyd review – a celebration of gay London

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May 29, 2017Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd – review

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May 20, 2017Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Peter Ackroyd: A secret history – 2,000 years of gay life in London

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2017Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day (Abrams) ISBN 9781419730993

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2014· 1 entry

May 8, 2014Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd review – divine comedy, difficult man

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2012· 1 entry

May 19, 2012Documented record77% confidence

BBC: Peter Ackroyd 'concealed sexuality' from family

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2004· 2 entries

2004Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

In a 2004 interview, Ackroyd said that he had not been in a relationship since Kuhn's death and was "very happy being celibate."

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2004Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Escape From Earth (PublicAffairs) ISBN 9781610398718

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2003· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2003Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2003).

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2002· 1 entry

2002Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (Knopf) ISBN 9780385497732

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1999· 1 entry

1999Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Suffered a heart attack and was placed in a medically induced coma for a week

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1998· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1998Documented record84% confidence

Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1998).

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1998Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) for The Life of Thomas More

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1994· 3 entries

1994Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

However, Kuhn was then diagnosed with AIDS and died in 1994, after which Ackroyd moved back to London.

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1994Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

After which Ackroyd moved back to London

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1994Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was interviewed about the London Psychogeographical Association in an article for The Observer, in which he remarked:I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory, the place, the

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1989· 1 entry

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“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.”

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1984· 4 entries

Jun 15, 1984Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Somerset Maugham Award (1984).

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Jun 15, 1984Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1984).

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Jun 15, 1984Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Heinemann Award (1984).

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1984Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003

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1982· 2 entries

1982Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Published The Great Fire of London, his first novel, which is a reworking of Charles Dickens' novel Little Dorrit

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1982Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The Great Fire of London (Hamish Hamilton) ISBN 9780241107041

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1976· 1 entry

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Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism

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1972· 1 entry

1972Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was a Mellon fellow at Yale University

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1949· 1 entry

Oct 5, 1949Documented record86% confidence

Born 1949-10-05.

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