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Peter Ackroyd - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

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Born October 5, 1949, London - British writer, poet and literary critic.
In 1971 he received a master's degree from Cambridge University, then spent two years at Yale University in the USA. Upon his return to his homeland he worked as an editor at The Spectator, and in 1986 he began to collaborate with the London Times, where his book reviews were published. He began his career in literature with poetry: in 1973 he published his debut collection of poetry "London Lickpenny", then "Countryside Life" (1978), "Purley's Entertainment" (1987). In 1982, he published his first novel, The Great Fire of London. Already in this work, the main motives of the writer's work are visible - an interest in the past and its reflection in literature, a mixture of real details of the biography of famous characters in English history and culture with plot motives and characters of literary works and the author's fiction. The text is based on allusions to the biography of Charles Dickens and his novel Little Dorrit. The novel "Testament of Oscar Wilde" (1983) is the author's version of the last years of the life of the famous writer who was forced to retire in exile. Then came the novel Hawksmoor (1985), in which the author addresses the personalities of the architects Nicholas Hawksmoor, John Vanbrugh and Christopher Wren. In 1987, the novel "Chatterton" was published, where Ackroyd builds a plot around the famous story of a literary hoax - the young British poet Chatterton passed off his works as poetry by an unknown medieval author, and later he himself became a character in literary myth.
In The House of Dr. Dee (1993), Ackroyd refers to the personality of the 16th century occultist John Dee. The plot of the novel is a bizarre interweaving of the life story of this scientist and contemporary events for the writer. In this novel, Ackroyd turns to the genre of science fiction, not limited to historical realities. In Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (also titled The Elizabeth Cree Trial, 1994), Ackroyd turns to the genre of historical detective, describing a dark murder story in Victorian London that involves such historical characters as Karl Marx, Charles Babbage and George Gissing. The description of the life of the Cockney and the actors of London music halls gives a special originality to the entourage of this work. In 1996, Ackroyd published another science fiction novel, Milton in America, an alternative story of the English poet and public figure of the 17th century, John Milton, as if, persecuted during the restoration, he fled to North America. In Plato's Letters (1999), Ackroyd paints a fantasy world of the distant future, in which historians try to recreate the realities of our time based on the remaining written sources. The surreal results of their research allow us to think about the adequacy of our historical knowledge and about the relationship between writing, knowledge and reality. In London Writers (2004), Ackroyd describes a fantastic story of massive falsification - suddenly the English literary society of the 18th century is shocked by more and more relics related to the life and work of William Shakespeare. The apotheosis of these events is the solemn staging of the newly found play by the great writer. The novel features Charles and Mary Lam as one of the main characters. Metaromaniac "The Journal of Victor Frankenstein" (2008) is a version of the famous novel by Mary Shelley, written on behalf of Victor Frankenstein, where the characters are the writer herself, Percy Shelley, Byron and the monster created by the unfortunate scientist.
Ackroyd also publishes biographical works such as Blake and William Shakespeare and the fundamental historical topographical books London and Thames.


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