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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20060827
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Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Perhaps the best stories have a little of both. It's an idea on which Peter Ackroyd has built an entire career.

The prolific British writer specializes in historical fiction of the most creative type. "Chatterton," shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987, asked whether 18th-century English poet Thomas Chatterton really committed suicide at age 18. "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde" tells the story of the Irish wit's last days in Wilde's own voice.

Mr. Ackroyd continues the ...

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