Christine Simon was born in Salford in 1957 and studied French at King’s College, London. For fourteen years she taught computer skills and various other subjects at Styal prison in Cheshire. She is currently a Gladstone Fellow at the University of Chester, completing a Ph.D. with the writer Alan Wall; the project entails the writing of a historical novel, entitled Chimera, and a critical commentary of which the essay on Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus forms a part.
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