The pen name of the English novelist, born John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. His best known work was Saturday Night at the Greyhound, published by Leo and Virginia Wolff's Hogarth Press. In 1925 Hampson was employed by a wealthy family in Dorridge, Solihull, as a live-in nurse and companion for their Down syndrome son. This work provided Hampson at last the security he needed to write. He began to make literary friends. In the Thirties he met the critic Walter Allen and other writers who came to be known as the Birmingham Group. On May 30, 1936, at W.H. Auden's encouragement, he married the German actress Therese Giehse to enable her to obtain a British passport and escape Nazi Germany. Hampson's employer died in 1955 and the family's home in Dorridge was sold. Hampson died that same year in Solihull Hospital of a coronary thrombosis. (Information from his Wikipedia biography and his death certificate.)
The pen name of the English novelist, born John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. His best known work was Saturday Night at the Greyhound, published by Leo and Virginia Wolff's Hogarth Press. In 1925 Hampson was employed by a wealthy family in Dorridge, Solihull, as a live-in nurse and companion for their Down syndrome son. This work provided Hampson at last the security he needed to write. He began to make literary friends. In the Thirties he met the critic Walter Allen and other writers who came to be known as the Birmingham Group. On May 30, 1936, at W.H. Auden's encouragement, he married the German actress Therese Giehse to enable her to obtain a British passport and escape Nazi Germany. Hampson's employer died in 1955 and the family's home in Dorridge was sold. Hampson died that same year in Solihull Hospital of a coronary thrombosis. (Information from his Wikipedia biography and his death certificate.)
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