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5 June 2019updated 02 Sep 2021 5:18pm

Christopher Logue: “I don’t think my life and my works are really connected, except that they both happened to me“

Christopher Logue remembered.

By Alan White

In the winter of 2004, I spent two frosty mornings in Christopher Logue’s study. I was an English teacher at one of his old schools, and had been asked to write a monograph about his life and work. I was nervous. I’d been told he was a difficult, rude man.

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