Paul Hoggart is a British

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and

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Early life and career

Hoggart spent some years as a further education lecturer at Kingsway College and then Woolwich College in

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before moving into journalism as a book reviewer, feature writer, television critic, columnist and interviewer particularly for ''

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''. He has also written for ''

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'' and '' Young Performer'' magazines, and the screenwriters’ website twelvepoint.com. His first novel, ''A Man Against a Background of Flames'', was published on Kindle by Pighog Press in April 2013. The print edition was published in October 2013.

Personal life

He is the younger son of

Richard Hoggart Herbert Richard Hoggart (24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014) was a British academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture. Early life Hoggart was bo ...

and brother of the political journalist Simon Hoggart. His sister Nicola is a teacher. He married his wife Elizabeth in

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in 2001, although they had been together for twenty-five years prior to that. They live in north London and have three children: Matthew, Edward and Rose.

References

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