Peter Ackroyd

**Peter Ackroyd** CBE (East Acton, Middelseks, 5 oktober 1949) is in Ingelske biograaf, romanskriuwer en kritikus mei benammen niget oan de skiednis en kultuer fan Londen. Foar syn romans oer Ingelske skiednis en kultuer en syn biografyen fan, ûnder oaren, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot en Sir Thomas More ûntfong er de Somerset Maugham Award en twa Whitbread Awards en tal fan oare prizen. 
Hy stiet bekend om it grut tal wurken, dy't er makke hat, it ferskaat oan stilen dêryn, de feardigens yn it oannimmen fan ûnderskate stimmen en de djipte fan syn ûndersyk. 

Yn 2003 waard er Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

## Wurk
### Fiksje
* 1971 *Ouch!* (poëzy)
* 1973 *London Lickpenny* (poëzy)
* 1982 *The Great Fire of London* (roman)
* 1983 *[[The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde]]*
* 1985 *Hawksmoor* (roman)
* 1987 *The Diversions of Purley and Other Poems* (poëzy)
* 1987 *Chatterton*
* 1989 *First Light*
* 1992 *English Music*
* 1993 *The House of Doctor Dee*
* 1994 *Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem* (ek útbrocht as *The Trial of Elizabeth Cree*)
* 1996 *Milton in America*
* 1999 *The Plato Papers*
* 2000 *The Mystery of Charles Dickens*
* 2003 *The Clerkenwell Tales* (Nederlânske oersetting *Nacht over Clerkenwell*)
* 2004 *The Lambs of London* (Nederlânske oersetting *Mary Lamb*)
* 2006 *The Fall of Troy*
* 2008 *The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein*
* 2009 *[[The Canterbury Tales]] – A Retelling*

### Non-Fiksje
* 1976 *Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on [[Modernisme|Modernism]]*
* 1978 *Country Life*
* 1979 *Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag, the History of an Obsession*
* 1980 *[[Ezra Pound]] and His World*
* 1984 *[[T.S. Eliot]]*
* 1987 *[[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]' London: An Imaginative Vision*
* 1989 *[[Ezra Pound]] and his World* (1989)
* 1990 *Dickens*
* 1991 *Introduction to Dickens*
* 1995 *[[William Blake|Blake]]*
* 1998 *The Life of [[Thomas More]]*
* 2000 **
* 2001 *The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures*
* 2002 *Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion*
* 2002 *Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination*
* 2003 *The Beginning*
* 2003 *Illustrated London*
* 2004 *Escape From Earth*
* 2004 *Ancient Egypt*
* 2004 *[[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]*
* 2004 *[[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]: A Biography* (Nederlânske oersetting *Shakespeare. De biografy*)
* 2005 *Ancient Greece*
* 2005 *Ancient Rome*
* 2005 *[[William Turner|Turner]]*
* 2007 *[[Thames]]: Sacred River*
* 2008 *Coffee with Dickens* (mei Paul Schlicke)
* 2008 *[[Isaac Newton|Newton]]*
* 2008 *[[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]]: A Life Cut Short*
* 2009 *[[Venice]]: Pure City*
* 2010 *The English Ghost*
* 2011 *London Under*
* 2011 *The History of England, Volume I: Foundation*
* 2012 *The History of England, Volume II: Reformation* (ek ferskynd ûnder de titel: *The History of England, Volume II: Tudors*)

### Telefyzje
* 2002 *[[Dickens (dokudrama)|Dickens]]* (BBC)
* 2004 *[[London (telefyzje)|London]]* (BBC)
* 2006 *The Romantics* (BBC)
* 2007 *London Visions* (BBC)
* 2008 *Peter Ackroyd's Thames* (ITV)
* 2009 *Peter Ackroyd's Venice* (BBC)

## Keppelings om utens
*  Wiidweidige biografy op ''contemporarywriters.com''
*  Audio-ynterview mei Peter Ackroyd oer Charles Dickens (sa'n 29 minuten)