John Livingston Hopkins Jr. (5 August 1938 – 25 April 2021) was an American novelist and travel writer.

Biography

Hopkins was born in

Orange, New Jersey The City of Orange is a township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the township's population was 30,134, reflecting a decline of 2,734 (−8.3%) from the 32,868 counted in 2000. Orange was original ...

. Hopkins lived in

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from 1962 to 1979 where he was a member of the Anglo/American literary crowd of the 1960s and 1970s, becoming friends with

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and

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. He wrote several novels, among them ''Tangier Buzzless Flies'' and ''The Flight of the Pelican'', and travel memoirs including ''The Tangier Diaries'', ''The South American Diaries'' and ''The White Nile Diaries''. Latterly Hopkins lived in

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, England.

Marriage and children

Hopkins married Ellen Ann Ragsdale in 1977. They had three sons.20th Century Cabells and their kin, Randolph Wall Cabell, Cabell Foundation, 1993

Bibliography

Novels

*''The Attempt'' (1968) *''Tangier Buzzless Flies'' (1972) *''The Flight of the Pelican'' (1983) *''In the Chinese Mountains'' (1990) *''All I Wanted was Company'' (1999)

Diaries

*''The Tangier Diaries 1962-1979'' (1995) *''The South American Diaries'' (2007) *''The White Nile Diaries'' (2014)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, John 1938 births 2021 deaths People from Orange, New Jersey American travel writers American male non-fiction writers Princeton University alumni