Book TV interviewed Peter Ackroyd in London about English writers and the history of the country.
Peter Ackroyd is the author of more than 30 non-fiction books, including biographies of Ezra Pound, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, Thomas Moore, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, J.M.W. Turner, Isaac Newton, and Edgar Allen Poe.
More recent additional writings include: Ancient Egypt (2004), Ancient Greece (2005), Ancient Rome (2005), Thames: Sacred River (2007); Venice: Pure City (2009); The English Ghost (2010); London Under (2011); A History of England, v.1 Foundation (2011); Wilkie Collins (2012); and A History of England, v.2 Tudors (2012).
Peter Ackroyd is the author of more than 30 non-fiction books, including biographies of Ezra Pound, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, Thomas Moore, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, J.M.W. Turner, Isaac Newton, and Edgar Allen Poe.
More recent additional writings include: Ancient Egypt (2004), Ancient Greece (2005), Ancient Rome (2005), Thames: Sacred River (2007); Venice: Pure City (2009); The English Ghost (2010); London Under (2011); A History of England, v.1 Foundation (2011); Wilkie Collins (2012); and A History of England, v.2 Tudors (2012).