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PETER ACKROYD is the author of London: The Biography and Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination; acclaimed biographies of T. S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More; and several successful novels. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, 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 Award for Literature. He lives in London, England.
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