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Jan 21, 1900 Oldham, England, United Kingdom Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1899)
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- Jack Hilton (21 January 1900 – 1983) was a British novelist, essayist, and travel writer.
- His work often depicted working-class people and environments, especially those of Northern England.
- Born into a working-class family, Hilton worked as a plasterer and was an active member of the plasterer’s union and the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement.
- After attending classes with the Workers Educational Association, he published his first book, the autobiographical Caliban Shrieks, in 1935.
- Hilton then attended Ruskin College, and eventually published a number of both fiction and nonfiction texts.
- He was acquainted with fellow working-class author Jack Common, socialist literary editor John Middleton Murry, and George Orwell.
