About the book:

Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life

From award-winning biographer, historian, and novelist, comes Peter Ackroyd's CHARLIE CHAPLIN: A Brief Life, a brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends.

He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces, even a hundred years after his first film. But who was the man behind the moustache? What drove the artist who not only directed the films but held the camera and acted in front of it?

Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin's often controversial life as well as on his classic films, from his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy Award. Everything is here, from the glamour of his golden age to the murky scandals of the 1940s and eventual exile to Switzerland. This masterful brief biography offers fresh revelations about one of the most familiar faces of the last century and brings the Little Tramp vividly to life.

"Ackroyd rewards his readers with a tale fit for a Chaplin film, featuring humor, tragedy and a poignant fade-out." —Associated Press

"In his typically elegant and measured prose, prize-winning biographer Ackroyd brilliantly brings Chaplin to life ... Ackroyd’s book introduces the Little Tramp in such a charming and candid fashion that it will drive movie buffs to watch Chaplin on screen once again." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Ackroyd exposes the hidden truths in Chaplin's life that help us to understand the artist both personally and professionally. An exceptional read." —Library Journal

About the Author: PETER ACKROYD is the author of London: A Biography, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, Shakespeare: The Biography, and Thames: The Biography. He has written acclaimed biographies of T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Sir Thomas More as well as several successful novels. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the South Bank Award for Literature.

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