The His Dark Materials writer (pictured) was blasted for defending UK author Kate Clanchy after she was cancelled by her publishers over her award-winning memoir.
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Howard Jacobson shares his upbringing as a Jew in Manchester and how his life experiences became comedy gold in a memoir. Novelist spent years as an academic before penning Coming From Behind.