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James Hilton
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Born in Leigh, Lancashire
Born on 9th of September 1900
Died on 20th of December 1954

Born 1900. Died 1954 California - English novelist.

Educated at Cambridge University. Worked as a freelance journalist before publishing his first novel Catherine Herself in 1920. Subsequent novels included Knight without Armour (1933), Lost Horizon (1933) and Goodbye Mr Chips (1934). Went to Hollywood to work as a scriptwriter in the 1940s.

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