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Born near Manchester, he was educated in Dorset, worked first on a film magazine and later for the British Council. The Second World War gave him a chance to learn Japanese and he became an interogator of prisoners of war. As an author he wrote The Wind Cannot Read which was finished during the Burma Campaign and The Shadow and the Peak. It was his experiences while he was living in Hong Kong which inspired him to write the novel The World of Suzie Wong,which was later adapted for a film in 1960 starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan.

He died of throat cancer in Rome, ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer.

1 Bibliography

1.1 Fiction

• The Wind Cannot Read 1948
• The Shadow and the Peak
• The World of Suzie Wong

2 External Links

Internet Movie Database link