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Peter Ackroyd

1949 - Today

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Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Ackroyd has received more than 690,251 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Peter Ackroyd is the 4,835th most popular writer (down from 4,605th in 2019), the 3,692nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,606th in 2019) and the 420th most popular British Writer.

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  • 690k

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  • 45.78

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Ackroyd ranks 4,835 out of 5,755Before him are Emmanuel Roblès, Johan Falkberget, Guzal Sitdikova, Günter Kunert, Aleksei Arbuzov, and László Németh. After him are Ricardo Güiraldes, Władysław Broniewski, Edoardo Sanguineti, Miljenko Jergović, Marie Kondo, and Dee Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Peter Ackroyd ranks 416Before him are Jupp Kapellmann, Maury Chaykin, Dave Gibbons, Dominic Sena, Rubén Pagnanini, and Fred Frith. After him are Ivo Linna, Valeriu Muravschi, Tommy Seebach, Lyubov Polishchuk, Heather Menzies, and Volodymyr Onyshchenko.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 3,692 out of 7,765Before him are Peter Lorimer (1946), Chad of Mercia (634), Daniel Oliver (1830), Kenneth Cranham (1944), Fred Frith (1949), and Margaret Leighton (1922). After him are Leslie Phillips (1924), Stafford Cripps (1889), Harrison Birtwistle (1934), Edwin Long (1829), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), and John Major (1467).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 420Before him are Nigella Lawson (1960), Edward Carpenter (1844), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Charles Williams (1886), Henry Lincoln (1930), and George Crabbe (1754). After him are Margery Kempe (1373), Roger Hargreaves (1935), Kate Atkinson (1951), Michael Grant (1914), John Braine (1922), and William Tenn (1920).