Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Peter Ackroyd (born October 5 1949 in London) is a British author. Ackroyd attended Clare College, Cambridge as an undergraduate and was a Mellon Fellow at Yale, in the United States. His career started in poetry, including works such as London Lickpenny (1973) and The Diversions of Purley (1987). He later moved into fiction and has become an acclaimed author, including shortlisting for the Booker Prize in 1987. Ackroyd has always shown a great interest in the city of London and one of his most recent works (London: an autobiography) is an extensive and thorough discussion of London through the ages. Ackroyd worked at The Spectator magazine between 1973 and 1977 and became joint managing editor in 1978. He was nominated a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984 and is currently a regular radio broadcaster and book critic. Table of contents 1 Works 1.1 Fiction 1.2 Non-fiction 2 External links 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 Trial of Elizabeth Cree – 1995 Non-fiction Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism – 1976 Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession – 1979 T. S. Eliot; A Life – 1984 Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision – 1987 Ezra Pound and his World – 1989 Dickens – 1990 An Introduction to Dickens – 1991 Blake – 1996 London: The Biography – 2000 External links A more in-depth biography Excerpt from London: The Biography This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.