Entertainment & Arts
A brief glimpse into the equally brief life of America’s gothic master, Edgar Allan Poe.
Jan. 25, 2009
Books
‘Poe: A Life Cut Short,’ by Peter Ackroyd
The erudite and engaging Peter Ackroyd’s 32nd book brims with insight and anecdote.
Jan. 5, 2011
Peter Ackroyd, the English novelist and biographer, has published nearly a dozen books, among them “Dickens: Life and Times,” “Chatterton,” “T.
Oct. 25, 1992
Book review: ‘Venice: Pure City’ by Peter Ackroyd
Newton; Peter Ackroyd; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 180 pp., $21.95
April 13, 2008
Painting a full-color portrait of Shakespeare, prolific biographer Peter Ackroyd puts the focus not on words but on deeds. But what’s a coup to some is conjecture to others.
Dec. 25, 2005
His feckless parents struggled to cling to the middle class, and as a boy Charles Dickens helped pawn their books and furniture while the large family moved from house to house, from Kent to Camden Town to London, and from respectability to the Marshalsea debtors’ prison, where in 1824 for three months all but one of them lived.
Jan. 20, 1991
First Light by Peter Ackroyd (Grove. $19.95. 336 pages.)
Sept. 7, 1989
The modern biographer is usually a faceless drudge grimly bound by a publisher’s commission to his or her subject like one of Dante’s damned.
May 19, 1996