30 JULY 1983, Page 18

The author

Sir: The author of 'that novel printed on loose pages for its readers to reshuffle' and whose name eludes Mary Renault (Letters, 23 July), was B. S. Johnson. Considering the circumstances of his tragic death, he would, I trust, wish to be remembered. Christopher Leach,

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