Gerald Hamilton
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George Hamilton (c. 1888-1970) was a memoirist, critic and internationalist. Born in Shanghai in the 1880s, but educated at England's Rugby School, he counted amongst his friends such notables as Winston Churchill, Aleister Crowley, Tallulah Bankhead and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote of Hamilton's remarkable personality and frequently shady dealings in his literary memoir Christopher and His Kind. Churchill had the Communist-sympathizing Hamilton temporarily interned during World War II for his vocal anti-war attitudes. Hamilton later served as the model for Isherwood's character Arthur Norris in his well-known novel The Last of Mr. Norris. Hamilton derived from this the title for his memoir, Mr. Norris and I, which was published in 1956. A second memoir, the Way it Was With Me, was published in 1969. Hamilton died in 1970 at the age of 82.
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Page, Norman. Auden and Isherwood: the Berlin Years. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
