Peter Ackroyd

English writer (London, October 5, 1949), educated in England and the USA. He writes poems, novels, essays, biographies and literary criticism. In his works, a conscious postmodernist, he is occupied by history and the revision of history, the interweaving of intertextual allusions, awareness of the deceptive boundaries between reality and fiction, elements of the fantastic, the occult and the morbid. Noted for the novel The Great Fire of London (1982). Other works: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), Hawksmoor (1985), Chatterton (1987), English Music (1992), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem , 1994), Plato's writings (The Plato Papers, 1999), The Fall of Troy (2006), etc. Wrote biographies of E. Pound, T. S. Eliot, Ch. Dickens, W. Blake, W. Shakespeare, G. Chaucer and others, as well as a kind of biography of London (London: The Biography, 2000), a description of the nature of English creativity Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, 2002) and others.