Peter Ackroyd is a biographer, a poet, a historian and a novelist. Ackroyd was born on October 5, 1949 in East Acton, London, United Kingdom. Among his subjects are William Shakespeare, Thomas More and Edgar Allan Poe. His novels tend to lean to the darker side as in Hawksmoor, which won the Whitbread Prize in 1985. Similiar, but possibly a bit darker is The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, a remake of the Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein.
Book Review:This is a retelling of the Frankenstein story, updated and moved to England.
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