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Peter Ackroyd, an Uncommon card
Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 107
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 59,000
Power 107 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
- For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, Ackroyd won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards.
- He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Peter Ackroyd article was read about 59,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Peter Ackroyd
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Peter Ackroyd (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Antony Medley / http://www.antonymedley.co.uk/, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.