Richard Mason (novelist 1919–1997)
Richard Mason ( born May 16, 1919 in Hale, Cheshire, † 13 October 1997 in Rome) was a British writer.
Life
Mason was born near Manchester and educated in the Bryanston School Dorset. He worked in a film magazine and later the British Council. During World War II it was used by the Royal Air Force in Burma and Malaya, where he had the opportunity to learn Japanese. He was entrusted with the questioning of prisoners of war.
He is the author of the books shadow over the Blue Mountains and ... because the wind can not read, that he completed during the Burma campaign.
Impressions and experiences from the time when he lived in Hong Kong, inspired him to the Roman Suzie Wong, the 1960 film starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan in the lead roles as The World of Suzie Wong.
Richard Mason died in Rome of lung cancer.
Writings
Fiction
- ... Because the wind can not read
- Shadow over the Blue Mountains
- Suzie Wong
- Twice the fever tree blossoms