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Peter Ackroyd was born in London, England and educated at Clare College,
Cambridge; and at Yale. He began his literary career as a poet, before turning
to fiction. Today, he is the bestselling author of at least fourteen
novels (often writing with a dual narrative style where the two voices are
separated by the centuries), fifteen non-fiction books, various collections and a history series for children.
His best known books include Hawksmoor (winner of the Whitbread Award)
and Chatterton (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) His most recent books
include The Lambs of London; Shakespeare: The Biography; and
J.M.W. Turner, the second biography in the Ackroyd Brief Lives series. He
has also written full-scale biographies of Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More and
the novels The Clerkenwell Tales, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree,
Milton in America, and The Plato Papers.
The Fall of Troy was published in the UK in September 2006, but is not
yet available in the USA. As the title suggests it is an historical
novel, but not set in the period you might think - instead Ackroyd takes us to
the relatively recent past of the 19th century, to the excavation site of the
Bronze Age site of Troy.
Useful link: A full bibliography at
fantasticfiction.com.
This "beyond the book article" relates to Shakespeare. It originally ran in November 2005 and has been updated for the
November 2006 paperback edition.
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