Review
"Peter Parker's biography is as frank and often almost as witty as Ackerley's own books . . . But Ackerley is more than a candid account of one man’s public and private life; it is also a candid view of London in mid-century, full of entertaining anecdotes about literary figures. If Ackerley had chosen a biographer himself he could hardly have done better." --Alison Lurie, The New York Times Book Review
"Parker shares many of Ackerley’s own virtues as a writer--coolness, clarity, economy, and wit--and he weaves together the public and private strands of his subject’s life with assurance." --Richard Jenkyns, The New Republic
"A first-class accomplishment of biography . . . Ackerley made important art out of his life; this biography illustrates that he made a decent job of living it." --Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe
"Parker shares many of Ackerley’s own virtues as a writer--coolness, clarity, economy, and wit--and he weaves together the public and private strands of his subject’s life with assurance." --Richard Jenkyns, The New Republic
"A first-class accomplishment of biography . . . Ackerley made important art out of his life; this biography illustrates that he made a decent job of living it." --Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe
