John Hadfield (musician), John Hadfield
John Hadfield may refer to: * John Hadfield (writer) * John Hadfield (musician) John Hadfield is an American jazz drummer, composer, and percussionist. Hadfield was born and raised in Missouri. He studied music at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Missouri–Kansas City, University of Missouri, Kansas Ci ...

John Hadfield (writer)
John Charles Heywood Hadfield (16 June 1907 – 10 October 1999) was an English writer and publisher, best known for his 1959 comic novel '' Love on a Branch Line''. Biography John Hadfield was born on 16 June 1907 in Birmingham, and was the second son of Heywood George Hadfield (died 1946) and Hilda Bragg (died 1959). He was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire. Hadfield's career began in 1935 when he joined J. M. Dent & Sons as an editor, a position he held until 1942. That year he became a Book Officer for the British Council and formed a unit translating books into Arabic. In 1944, while travelling to the middle east, his ship was torpedoed and sunk in the mid-Atlantic. In the aftermath he was sent to recover in Norfolk. Between 1944 and 1950, he served as the director of the National Book League. He moved to Suffolk just before the closure of the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway branch line from Haughley to Laxfield and it was this that is said to have inspired the novel ...
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