Peter Ackroyd

Chief Book Reviewer. Poet, critic, literary theorist, cultural historian, novelist, and nonfiction writer. Wrote biography of T.S. Eliot and biographies of Charles Dickens, William Blake, Thomas More, and Shakespeare. Wrote London: The Biography and Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination as well as twelve novels, among them Hawksmoor, Chatterton, The Clerkenwell Tales, and The Lambs of London. Was Literary Editor (1973-1977) for The Spectator magazine in London as well as joint Managing Editor (1978-1982) and film critic.