biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–54)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Leigh, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and quickly established himself as a writer, his first novel, Catherine Herself, being published in 1920. His success was dual, for many of his novels were filmed, notably Lost Horizon (1933, Hawthornden Prize), and Goodbye Mr Chips (1934). He settled in the USA in 1935. |
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