Peter Ackroyd

PETER ACKROYD is the author of London: The Biography
and
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination;
acclaimed
biographies of T. S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Thomas
More; and several successful novels. He has won the
Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the Royal Society of
Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset
Maugham Award, and the South Bank Award for Literature. He
lives in London, England.