Richard Hoggart Biography
(1918– ), The Uses of Literacy, A Local Habitation, A Sort of Clowning, An Imagined Life, Auden
British scholar and critic, brought up in Leeds, educated at Leeds University. Among many important posts, he was Professor of English at Birmingham from 1962, deputy Director-General at UNESCO (1970–5), and warden of Goldsmiths' College, London (1976–84). His most influential work, The Uses of Literacy (1957), about his childhood and his experience of working-class culture between the wars, did much to widen interest in the study of literature, education, communications, and popular culture. His autobiographical volumes include A Local Habitation (1988), A Sort of Clowning (1990), and An Imagined Life (1992). Other works on social questions and on literature include Auden (1951), Higher Education: Demand and Response (1969), Only Connect (1972; Reith Lectures), and English Cultural Studies (1987). His topographical work Townscape with Figures: Farnham, Portrait of an English Town appeared in 1994.
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