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James Hilton (9 September 1900 – 20 December 1954) was a British-American [1] novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon , Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest , as well as co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award .
Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. The book was turned into a film, also called Lost Horizon, in 1937 by director Frank Capra and a lavish musical remake in 1973 by producer Ross Hunter with music by Burt Bacharach. It is the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.
James Hilton may refer to: James Hilton (academic) (born 1959), Vice Provost and University Librarian & Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan; James Hilton (designer) (born 1973), English designer; James Hilton (novelist) (1900–1954), English novelist; Jimmy Hilton (1883–1943), English rugby league footballer of the 1900s and ...
The setting for Goodbye, Mr. Chips is probably based on The Leys School, Cambridge, where James Hilton was a pupil (1915–18).Hilton is reported to have said that the inspiration for the protagonist, Mr. Chips, came from many sources, including his father, who was the headmaster of Chapel End School.
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The Silver Flame is a 1928 novel by the British writer James Hilton. [1] The original British publisher was Butterworth. In 1949 it was published in the United States in by Avon under the alternative title Three Loves Had Margaret. [2] It has been described as the last of his "apprentice novels" before he emerged as a major international author ...
Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, [1] described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton.Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. [1]
We Are Not Alone is a 1937 novel by James Hilton. [2] It is one of his more sombre works, portraying the tragic consequences of anti-foreign hysteria in England just before World War I. [3] It has been compared to Goodbye, Mr. Chips in its portrayal of small-town life through the eyes of an everyman protagonist.