James Hilton (novelist)

James Hilton
Publicity portrait of Hilton
Born(1900-09-09)9 September 1900
Leigh, Lancashire, England, U.K.
Died20 December 1954(1954-12-20) (aged 54)
Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • screenwriter
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
Genre
  • Fantasy
  • adventure novel
  • mainstream fiction
Spouse
Alice Brown
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(m. 1935; div. 1937)​
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    (m. 1937; div. 1945)​

    James Hilton (9 September 1900 – 20 December 1954) was a British-American 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.

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