"Random Harvest Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including ""Lost Horizon"" and ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"", the novel was immensely popular, placing second on ""The New York Times"" list of best-selling novels for the year. The novel was successfully adapted into a film of the same name in 1942 under the direction of Mervyn LeRoy. Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination for their work. Though the film departs from the novel's narrative in several significant ways, the"
"next eleven years were difficult for him, and it was not until 1931 that he had success with the novel ""And Now Goodbye"". Following this, several of his books were international bestsellers and inspired successful film adaptations, notably ""Lost Horizon"" (1933), which won a Hawthornden Prize; ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" (1934); and ""Random Harvest"" (1941). After this, he continued to write, but the works were not regarded as of the same quality as his best-known novels. Hilton's books are sometimes characterised as sentimental and idealistic celebrations of English virtues. This is true of ""Mr. Chips"", but some of his novels had"
"his two most remembered books, ""Lost Horizon"" and ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" while living in a house on Oak Hill Gardens, in Woodford Green in north London. The house still stands, with a blue plaque marking Hilton's residence. By 1938 he had moved to California, and his work became more connected with the Hollywood film industry. While in California, Hilton was also host of one of radio's prestige drama anthologies, ""Hallmark Playhouse"", from 1948-1952. He married Alice Brown, a secretary at the BBC, just before they left for the United States in 1935, but they divorced in 1937. He then married"
"old, the doctor had told Rutherford, ""Most old of anyone I have ever seen,"" implying that it was Lo-Tsen, aged drastically by her departure from Shangri-La. The narrator wonders whether Conway can find his way back to his lost paradise. The book, published in 1933, caught the notice of the public only after Hilton's ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" was published in 1934. ""Lost Horizon"" became a huge popular success and in 1939 was published in paperback form, as Pocket Book #1. Because of its number-one position in what became a very long list of pocket editions, ""Lost Horizon"" is often mistakenly"
"picked ""Lost Horizon"" as its first title in 1939. For that reason, the novel is frequently called the book that began the ""paperback revolution."" Hilton is said to have been inspired to write ""Lost Horizon"", and to invent ""Shangri-La"" by reading the ""National Geographic Magazine"" articles of Joseph Rock, an Austrian-American botanist and ethnologist exploring the southwestern Chinese provinces and Tibetan borderlands. Still living in Britain at the time, Hilton was perhaps influenced by the Tibetan travel articles of early travellers in Tibet whose writings were found in the British Library. Christian Zeeman, the Danish father of the mathematician Christopher"
"Stacy Aumonier Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928) was a British writer, sometimes mistakenly credited as Stacey Aumonier. Between 1913 and 1928, he wrote more than 85 short stories, 6 novels, a volume of character studies, and a volume of 15 essays. It was as a short-story writer that he was most highly regarded. Nobel Prize winner (and ""Forsyte Saga"" author) John Galsworthy described Stacy Aumonier as ""one of the best short-story writers of all time"" and predicted that, through the best of his stories, he would ""outlive all the writers of his day."" James Hilton (author of ""Goodbye, Mr Chips"" and ""Lost"
"was published with illustrations where the American version was not. A spelling variation in a book title occurs with ""A Journey to the Center of the Earth"". In the UK, the edition was published under the title ""A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"". In the United States, the James Hilton titles (""Lost Horizon, Good-bye Mr. Chips and Other Stories"") were printed in two separate volumes whereas in the UK edition, they were combined into one book. Each edition in the WBR series includes a sheet folded in half numbered with page numbers one through four with a synopsis"
"William Henry Balgarnie William Henry Balgarnie (12 May 1869 – c. July 1951) was a schoolmaster at Elmfield College, Woodbridge School and The Leys School, and was the inspiration for the character Mr Chips in the book ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"", written by one of his students at The Leys, James Hilton. He was born at Woolwich.He was the son of a Presbyterian minister, Balgarnie studied at and taught at Elmfield College before going to The Leys. In the 1890s he gathered with other Old Elmfieldians in London for a country walk followed by tea, which was invariably accompanied with recitations"
"won't be here to deliver on his promise."" Roger Hobbs Roger Hobbs (June 10, 1988 – November 14, 2016) was an American writer. He was the author of ""Ghostman"" and ""Vanishing Games"". In 2011, Hobbs sold the adaptation rights to his crime fiction ""Ghostman"" to Warner Brothers. In 2014, Hobbs was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Roger Hobbs died of a drug overdose in Portland, Oregon, on November 14, 2016. Roger John Hobbs was born June 10, 1988 in Boston as the only son of Randy and Renee Hobbs. He attended elementary"
"for it ever since.) Zhongdian, a mountain region of Southwest China, has now been renamed Shangri-La (Xianggelila), based on its claim to have inspired Hilton's book. W.H Balgarnie, a master at the Leys School, Cambridge and Hilton's father, headmaster of Chapel End School in Walthamstow, were the inspirations for the character of Mr. Chipping in ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"", a best seller. Hilton first sent the material to ""The Atlantic"" and the magazine printed it as an article in April, 1934. It was then proposed to be printed as a book. On 8 June it was published as a book. Four"
"unfinished novel of the same name by renowned science fiction writer Philip K. Dick before his death. The song ""Book T: Exodus"" is the theme of the 1960 film ""The Exodus"" composed by Ernest Gold. The Allmusic review by William York stated ""Secret Chiefs 3's first three studio albums were not exactly stripped-down affairs, but ""Book of Horizons"" is by far an ambitious release ... this is a frequently jaw-dropping album that should silence Spruance's anti-Bungle critics and, more importantly, challenge and entertain devoted fans of his past work"". Pitchfork contributor Jonathan Zwickel noted ""Over three years in the making,"
"Harry Harrison (writer) Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel ""Make Room! Make Room!"" (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture ""Soylent Green"" (1973). Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss called him ""a constant peer and great family friend"". His friend Michael Carroll said, ""Imagine ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" or ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", and picture them as science-fiction novels. They're rip-roaring"
"Roger Hobbs Roger Hobbs (June 10, 1988 – November 14, 2016) was an American writer. He was the author of ""Ghostman"" and ""Vanishing Games"". In 2011, Hobbs sold the adaptation rights to his crime fiction ""Ghostman"" to Warner Brothers. In 2014, Hobbs was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Roger Hobbs died of a drug overdose in Portland, Oregon, on November 14, 2016. Roger John Hobbs was born June 10, 1988 in Boston as the only son of Randy and Renee Hobbs. He attended elementary school in Harvard, MA and graduated from Conestoga"
"Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks. With the advent of television, Segall turned his writing talents to this medium, writing plots for TV series and ""Playhouse 90"". He retired from screenwriting in 1959 and died November 25, 1975, in Woodland Hills, California. Segall was interred in Roosevelt Cemetery, in Gardena, California. Harry Segall Harry Segall (April 10, 1892 – November 25, 1975) was an American playwright, screenwriter and television writer. Segall was born in Chicago. Harry Segall's writing career spans 1933 to 1959. Segall's plays, including ""Lost Horizons"", appeared on Broadway in the mid-1930s. In 1933, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought Segall to Hollywood"
"Shangri-La Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel ""Lost Horizon"" by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The name also evokes the imagery of the exoticism of the"
"Richard G. Hubler Richard G. Hubler (born Richard Gibson Hubler; 20 August 1912 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania – 21 October 1981 in Ojai, California), was an American screenwriter, military author, and writer of biographies, fiction, and non-fiction. However, his best-known work is the 1965 autobiography he ghostwrote for Ronald Reagan, ""Where's the Rest of Me?"". Hubler attended Wyoming Seminary then graduated from Swarthmore College in 1934. Hubler began writing for many magazines. In 1941 he wrote his first biography ""Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse of Baseball"" followed by ""I Flew for China"" in 1942, a biography of Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot."
"Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as ""The Big Country"". He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: ""Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and"
"was buried in the Whispering Pines section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Cyril Hume Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine ""The Yale Record"". He was an editor of the collection ""The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922"" (1922). He wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including ""Tarzan the Ape Man"" (1932), ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933), ""The Great Gatsby"" (1949), ""Tokyo Joe"" (1949) and ""Forbidden Planet"" (1956). Hume died on March 26, 1966, just 10"
"Cyril Hume Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine ""The Yale Record"". He was an editor of the collection ""The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922"" (1922). He wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including ""Tarzan the Ape Man"" (1932), ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933), ""The Great Gatsby"" (1949), ""Tokyo Joe"" (1949) and ""Forbidden Planet"" (1956). Hume died on March 26, 1966, just 10 days after his 66th birthday, at his home in Palos Verdes, California, and"
"Harold L. Goodwin Harold Leland Goodwin (November 20, 1914 – February 18, 1990) was an American writer. Died from Cardiac arrest. Known to his friends as Hal Goodwin, Goodwin wrote popular science books, mostly about space exploration, as Harold L. Goodwin, ""Hal Goodwin"" and ""Harold Leland Goodwin"". He also wrote children's books as Blake Savage (""Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet"") and John Blaine (the ""Rick Brant"" series). In the latter case, he co-wrote (with Peter J. Harkins) the first 3 books in the series and wrote books 4 through 24 by himself. In 1947, he wrote ""The Feathered Cape"","
"C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (11 May 1866 – 10 March 1944) was an English novelist who was also known by the pen name Weatherby Chesney. He is perhaps best remembered as the author of """". He is also remembered for his Captain Kettle stories and for ""The Recipe for Diamonds"". Hyne was born 11 May 1866. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Haggas (died 1938). They had a son named Charles Godfrey Haggas Cutcliffe Hyne (1 December 1897 – 21 November 1916). He was wounded in the battle of the Sommes and died from his"
"Shangri-La Again Spike Milligan's radio play Shangri-La Again is based loosely on the novel ""Lost Horizon"" by James Hilton. The story is set during the invasion of Manchuria (1933). Ned Seagoon leads the British residents of Peking in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of the invading Japanese army. A pilot by the name of Count Moriarty offers to fly the residents to freedom for a considerable fee, however, even his plans are wrecked when his plane crashes in the mountains. Moriarty, Seagoon and the other survivors must rely on a mysterious, barefoot boy named Bluebottle to guide them"
"of the Northern Scouts of the Pakistan Army. Shangrila was named after a book titled ""Lost Horizon"" by James Hilton. In the novel, the author narrates a tale in which an aeroplane crash landed near a riverbed, in the early 1920s. The surviving passengers came across some Buddhist monks from a nearby temple and sought their help. They were taken to a beautiful lamasery filled with a variety of fruits and flowers. The monks looked quite young, although they claimed to be hundreds of years old. The idyllic place was called Shangri-la, a Tibetan word meaning """"Heaven on earth"""". In"
"Far Horizons Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction is an anthology of original science fiction stories edited by Robert Silverberg, first published in hardcover by Avon Eos in May 1999, with a book club edition following from Avon and the Science Fiction Book Club in July of the same year. Paperback and trade paperback editions were issued by Eos/HarperCollins in May 2000 and December 2005, respectively, and an ebook edition by HarperCollins e-books in March 2009. The first British edition was issued in hardcover and trade paperback by Orbit/Little Brown in June 1999, with"
"based upon Hamilton's writings, which are much more realistic, gritty and ""noir"". DreamWorks optioned the film rights to Hamilton's books in 2002 and began planning a more serious adaptation of the Matt Helm novels, but the project is in limbo. Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as ""The Big Country"". He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the"
"Lowry intended for his magnum opus. Malcolm Lowry Clarence Malcolm Lowry (; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel ""Under the Volcano"", which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. Lowry was born in New Brighton, Wirral, UK the fourth son of Evelyn Boden and Arthur Lowry, a cotton broker with roots in Cumberland. He was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge (the school made famous by the novel ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"") and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1912, the"
"from an established London suburb into the then-new suburbs of Metro-land. Sherriff was nominated along with Eric Maschwitz and Claudine West for an Academy award for writing an adapted screenplay for ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" which was released in 1939. His 1955 screenplays, ""The Dam Busters"" and ""The Night My Number Came Up"" were nominated for best British screenplay BAFTA awards. R. C. Sherriff Robert Cedric Sherriff, FSA, FRSL (6 June 1896 – 13 November 1975) was an English writer best known for his play ""Journey's End"", which was based on his experiences as an army officer in the First World"
"Christopher Hills Christopher Hills (April 9, 1926 – January 31, 1997) was an English-born author, philosopher, and scientist, popularly described as the ""Father of Spirulina"" for popularizing spirulina cyanobacteria as a food supplement. He also wrote 30 books on consciousness, meditation, yoga and spiritual evolution, divining, world government, aquaculture, and personal health. Hills was variously headlined by the press as a ""Western Guru Scientist"", ""Natural Foods Pioneer"", ""Evolutionary Revolutionary"" and a ""Modern Merlin"". As a successful commodities trader and art patron in Jamaica, he retired from business at an early age to follow a spiritual quest that took him around"
"Dreamtime"" and his short story ""Sail the Tide of Mourning"" received Hugo Award nominations in 1975 and 1976. His first collection of short mystery stories is ""Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix"" (Crippen & Landru, 2008). His and Steve Stiles' collaborative graphic novel ""The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and His Incredible Aether Flyer"", originally a series of comic strips in ""Heavy Metal"", is considered a forerunner of steampunk. Richard A. Lupoff Richard Allen Lupoff (born February 21, 1935) is an American science fiction and mystery author, who has also written humor, satire, non-fiction and reviews. In addition to his"
"Papers"", a successful vehicle for Harry Secombe. Later collaborators included Henry Mancini (""Victor/Victoria"" in 1982 and Tom and Jerry The Movie in 1992) and John Williams (""Hook"" in 1991). As composer and lyricist he scored the notorious box office film flop, ""Doctor Dolittle"" (1967), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song (""Talk to the Animals""), and the less-successful ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" (1969). Sammy Davis Jr. had hits with two of Bricusse's songs, ""What Kind of Fool Am I?"" (from ""Stop the World - I Want to Get Off"") and ""The Candy Man"" (from ""Willy Wonka &"
"Victor Milan Victor Woodward Milán (August 3, 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma – February 13, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) was an American writer known for libertarian science fiction and an interest in cybernetics. In 1986 he won the Prometheus Award for ""Cybernetic Samurai"". He has also written several shared universe works for the Forgotten Realms, ""Star Trek"", ""BattleTech"" and ""Wild Cards"" series. He has also written books under the pseudonyms Richard Austin (Jove Books ""The Guardians"" series), Robert Baron (Jove Books ""Stormrider"" series), and S. L. Hunter (""Steele"" series with Simon Hawke, who used the pen name J. D. Masters)."
"months later it appeared as a book in Britain. Hilton, who lived and worked in Hollywood beginning in the mid-1930s, won an Academy Award in 1942 for his work on the screenplay of ""Mrs. Miniver"", based on the novel by Jan Struther. He presented six episodes of ""Ceiling Unlimited"" (1943) and hosted ""The Hallmark Playhouse"" (1948–1953) for CBS Radio. One of his later novels, ""Morning Journey"", was about the film business. Some of Hilton's novels were filmed: Hilton co-wrote the book and lyrics for ""Shangri-La"", a disastrous 1956 Broadway musical adaptation of ""Lost Horizon"". There is one sequel to ""Lost"
"It may be used in this context alongside other mythical and famous examples of somewhat similar metaphors such as El Dorado, The Fountain of Youth, and The Holy Grail. Shangri-La Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel ""Lost Horizon"" by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La"