James H. Hunter

Who is James H. Hunter?

James Hogg Hunter was a Scottish-born Canadian Christian journalist, novelist and biographer.

Hunter emigrated to Canada in 1913 at the age of 22 and began his journalistic career with the Peterborough, Ontario Farm and Dairy newspaper in that same year. Four years later he joined the Toronto Globe where, after breaking in as a cub reporter, he became a member of the editorial staff and wrote a regular bylined column: "The Outlook of the Church." He left the Globe in 1929 to become editor of the Evangelical Christian magazine which he edited until his retirement in 1969.

He was an author of early evangelical Christian thrillers, notably The Mystery of Mar Saba. Hunter was the editor of the Evangelical Christian magazine, published in Toronto. Hunter wrote Christian adventure novels which sold thousands of copies in Canada and the USA. Dr. Hunter's 1951 novel, Thine is the Kingdom, received first prize in an international fiction contest; in 1956 he was named "author of the quarter century" by Zondervan Publishing Company. The Great Deception is a collection of short articles critical of the Roman Catholic Church, which J.H.