Peter Ackroyd
About Author
Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949 and was educated at Cambridge and Yale universities. He was literary editor of the Spectator for several years and chief book reviewer for The Times. He has published several volumes of poetry including The Diversions of Purley. His novels include The Great Fire of London; The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (Somerset Maugham prize, 1984); Hawksmoor (Whitbread
Award and Guardian Fiction Prize, 1985); and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem.
His highly acclaimed biographies include T. S. Eliot: A Life (Whitbread and Heinemann Awards, 1984), Dickens; William Blake; The Life of Thomas Moore, and his recent London: the Biography, regarded by many as his masterwork.
Voyages Through Time is Peter Ackroyd's first series for Dorling Kindersley and his first work for children.
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