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Real Name: Alan Polak
About Me: Born Liverpool 1950
BA in PPE (Oxford 1971)
MA in 20th Century Literary Studies (Liverpool 1999)
PhD in Cultural Representation of the Holocaust (Sheffield 2004)
Evertonian, Luxemburgist, Hellenist, Burmese cat lover
Location: West Kirby, Wirral, England
Currently Reading: Go Tell it on the Mountain: James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea by Thomas Suárez
Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity by John Ma
Favorite Authors: Samuel Beckett, Brigid Brophy, Herodotus, James Joyce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Edith Wharton

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