John Hampson (novelist)
(1901-1955)
English novelist
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John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson (26 March 1901 – 26 December 1955), who wrote as John Hampson, was an English novelist. Best known for his 1931 novel Saturday Night at the Greyhound – an unexpected success for the Hogarth Press – he was a member of the Birmingham Group of working class authors, which included Walter Allen, Leslie Halward, Walter Brierley and Peter Chamberlain. His elder brother was a motorcycle racer, Jimmy Simpson (James Hampson-Simpson).
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John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson 26 March 1901 Birmingham, England
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26 December 1955 (aged 54) Dorridge, Solihull, England
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| Zodiac | Aries |
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