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Screenwriter, Book Author, Play Author Biography:Patrick Hamilton was one of the more successful playwrights and novelists of the 1930s and '40s, and saw his two greatest plays turned into extremely popular movies. He was born Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton in Hassocks, Sussex, in 1904, the son of Benard Hamilton, a barrister, and Ellen Hamilton. His parents later divorced, and both suffered from more than their share of psychological problems, as well as alcoholism. Hamilton was educated at the Westminster School and aspired to be an actor. He made his stage debut in 1921, at the age of 17, but failed at this career and soon turned to working as a typist and stenographer in London, writing in his spare time. He published his first novel, Monday Morning, in 1923 at age 19, and he wrote five more novels over the next 12 years, all of them successful.
Hamilton's books, which all dealt with the seamier sides of lower-class life in England, were... Full Biography
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