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Informationen zum Autor Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England . He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. Klappentext Paperback edition of Ackroyd's biography of the great Victorian novelist, author of "The Woman In White" and "The Moonstone". Follows his life from his birth as the son of a well-known artist, through his struggles to become a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendships with Charles Dickens. From the acclaimed author who has written biographies of Dickens, Blake, Chaucer, Poe, Shakespeare and many others. Zusammenfassung As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone – often called the first true detective novel – and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works.
