Book review: Alfred Hitchcock
PETER ACKROYD? Say hello to the man behind block-thick books about — deep breath — TS Eliot, Charles Dickens, William Blake, Thomas More, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Chaucer, JMW Turner, and Wilkie Collins. As if chronicling in exceptionally attentive and in-depth detail the lives and times of such august figures, Ackroyd has also delivered equally acclaimed histories of his place of birth (London: The Biography, 2000) and the water that runs through it (Thames: Sacred River, 2007). He is regarded, not to put too fine a point on it, as the biographer’s biographer.
