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Peter Ackroyd

1949 - Today

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Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. 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, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Ackroyd is the 4,881st most popular writer (down from 4,674th in 2019), the 3,841st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,371st in 2019) and the 417th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Peter Ackroyd ranks 4,881 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucy Hawking, Sultan Bahu, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Paul Theroux, Tua Forsström, and Dương Thu Hương. After him are Eugenio Espejo, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, Steven Millhauser, Antoni Malczewski, Kamala Surayya, and Steven Erikson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Peter Ackroyd ranks 449. Before him are Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Danuta Wałęsa, Tommy Seebach, Loretta Devine, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, and Jerzy Gorgoń. After him are Kiran Bedi, Mwepu Ilunga, Helena Fibingerová, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Patrick Kilpatrick, and Klaus Ludwig.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 3,842 out of 8,785. Before him are Clare Hollingworth (1911), Jon Hiseman (1944), Leslie Marr (1922), Tom Daley (1994), Lucy Hawking (1969), and Howard Stringer (1942). After him are Simon Donaldson (1957), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), Frederick William Beechey (1796), Charles Jarrott (1927), John Collins (1968), and Margaret Beckett (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 417. Before him are Roger Ascham (1515), Helen Fielding (1958), Ronald Knox (1888), Hanif Kureishi (1954), Clare Hollingworth (1911), and Lucy Hawking (1969). After him are Alex Garland (1970), Eva Crane (1912), Anna Löwenstein (1951), Cynewulf (900), W. W. Jacobs (1863), and George Borrow (1803).

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