James Lansdale Hodson

Who was James Lansdale Hodson?

James Lansdale Hodson was a British novelist, scriptwriter and journalist. He was a war correspondent and northern editor of the Daily Mail.

Hodson worked as a war correspondent during World War II, and he wrote a war diary that was published as a series of 7 books by Victor Gollancz; 'Through the Dark Night', 'Towards the Morning', 'Before Daybreak', 'War in the Sun', 'Home Front', 'And Yet I like America' and 'The Sea and the Land'. He also wrote the official British film Desert Victory. He toured the United States from 1943-4, writing 'And Yet I Like America' on his return. His 1952 novel Morning Star was about freedom of the press in England. His 1955 novel Return To The Wood became a play and then a film, both called King & Country.

He was born in Bury, Lancashire in 1891. He died aged 65 on 28 August 1956 at Lewisham Hospital.