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Biographical note
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, 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 Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.More concise and sardonic than <i>Hawksmoor</i> and <i>Chatterton</i>, and even more mysteriously brilliant, <i>Milton in America</i> fills the reader's mind with images of extraordinary vividness
- John Bayley, The Times
A strikingly clever premise for a novel... Ackroyd's prose fizzes and sparkles as brightly as an electrical misconnection
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Independent
Consistently funny. Ackroyd's comic genius... is allowed to let rip, with wonderfully enjoyable gusto
- A.N.Wilson, Literary Review
A startlingly good novel... authentically tragic and unforgettable
- Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph