Chatterton is directly related to fact and non-fact, and it represents the historical persons as characters in the frame of a fictional

biography. History presents Thomas Chatterton as a poet who committed suicide at the age of seventeen. Although Thomas Chatterton is regarded as a figure of romantic idealism, Ackroyds Chatterton is not in search of knowledge or facts, on the contrary it creates its own reality by labelling the historical facts about Chattertons life as imposture. Since Thomas Chatterton was a forger of pseudo-medieval poetry, he turns into a rich source for Ackroyd to deal with the postmodern issues such as plagiarism, authenticity, objective reality, and representation of reality. He started writing at the age of twelve, and since this reality was difficult to believe, he created a fictive personality, a medieval monk named Thomas Rowley and wrote his poetry under his name.