Peter Ackroyd (Author) Peter Ackroyd, CBE, novelist, critic and biographer, formerly literary editor of the Spectator and chief non-fiction reviewer for the Times, has won numerous literary awards. His London: The Biography (2000) took the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature.Thomas Wright (Author) Thomas Wright, historian, writer and researcher, was editor for Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography.
London . . . if you want to know it better . . . Ackroyd is your indispensable companion. - Observer