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Paul Hoggart | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, novelist |
| Spouse | Elizabeth (m. 2001) |
| Children | 3 |
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Paul Hoggart is a British journalist [1] and novelist.
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Paul Hoggart | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, novelist |
| Spouse | Elizabeth (m. 2001) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives |
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Paul Hoggart is a British journalist [1] and novelist.
Hoggart spent some years as a further education lecturer at Kingsway College and then Woolwich College in London before moving into journalism as a book reviewer, feature writer, television critic, columnist and interviewer particularly for The Times . He has also written for The Guardian , Observer , The Independent , Daily Telegraph , Radio Times , Broadcast , The Stage , Saga and Young Performer magazines, and the screenwriters’ website twelvepoint.com.
His first novel, A Man Against a Background of Flames, [2] ASIN B00CCTRC62 was published on Kindle by Pighog Press [3] in April 2013. The print edition was published in October 2013.
He is the younger son of Richard Hoggart and brother of the political journalist Simon Hoggart. His sister Nicola is a teacher. He married his wife Elizabeth in Las Vegas, Nevada 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.
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