A James Hilton Companion

<p> The writer and Academy Award-winner James Hilton is best known as the author of <I>Goodbye Mr. Chips</I> and <I>Random Harvest</I> as well as the novel <I>Lost Horizon</I> in which he invented Shangri-La--the fictional place and the utopian concept. This reference guide to the entirety of Hilton's works--novels short stories nonfiction and film adaptations--gives a detailed account of his life and literary career (including a complete chronology) a listing of his works and a key to the important characters and locations. The main body of the text is devoted to an examination of his writing including a section devoted to adaptations of his novels into movies.</p>