I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd

After Cambridge Editor Enjoyed Extending Fellow Gale George Learning Left Literary Made Me Once Reading School Spectator Spent Two University Yale Years

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