Audrey Whiteside worked as a personnel officer for a firm that made metal boxes. Very little is known about Graham Ackroyd. His parents separated a short time after his birth, and he settled with his mother in East Acton, where he lived in a council house near Wormwood Scrubs jail until the age of seventeen. Peter Ackroyd was born in Paddington Hospital on October 5, 1949, the only son of Graham Ackroyd and Audrey Whiteside. Works in Biographical and Historical Context In addition to fusing history and fiction, Ackroyd’s novels also consider the nature of time and art, often involving the protagonist in situations that transcend time and space.
Eliot and Charles Dickens were complemented by his novels that frequently fictionalize the lives of famous historical personalities, such as Oscar Wilde and Thomas Chatterton.
Ackroyd came to literary prominence as a biographer, and his well-received volumes on literary giants T. David Levenson / Getty ImagesĬonsidered an accomplished, versatile writer, Peter Ackroyd has authored works ranging from poems to novels, criticism to biography.
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