James William Drought (November 4, 1931 - June 3, 1983) was
an American author. He was born in Aurora Illinois, and grew up on the outskirts
of Chicago. Drought served in the Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne
Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina from 1952-1954 where he wrote press
releases and speeches for the Office of Public Relations. He moved his family
to Norwalk, Connecticut in 1960, and was a magazine editor in New York City.
In 1969, MGM made one of his novels, "The Gypsy Moths", into a film starring
Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Deborah Kerr, and Scott Wilson. In 1973, Drought
was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by European critics. A complete
collection of his works is kept in the Special Collections Department at
Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library in Boston, Massachusetts.
Click here to download "An Introduction To James Drought" by Colin Wilson
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