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Name
  
Hamilton Basso

Role
  
Novelist

Education
  
Tulane University


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Died
  
May 13, 1964, Weston, Connecticut, United States

Movies
  
The View from Pompey's Head, Holiday for Sinners

Books
  
The View from Pompey's Head, Relics and Angels, Pompey's Head, Mainstream

Nominations
  
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Joseph Hamilton Basso (September 5, 1904 – May 13, 1964) was an American novelist and journalist.

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Basso worked as reporter for several newspapers in New Orleans, wrote 11 novels, primarily about the South and was an associate editor at The New Yorker for more than 20 years. His best-known work is the novel The View from Pompey's Head, a story of a New York City attorney who returns to his Southern hometown to investigate a mystery surrounding a famous writer. The book spent almost a year on the bestseller lists in 1954.

Awards

His 1959 novel The Light Infantry Ball, a prequel to The View from Pompey's Head, was a finalist for the 1960 National Book Award.

Basso died in 1964, at age 59, in Weston, Connecticut.

References

Hamilton Basso Wikipedia


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