James Hogg Hunter (Maybole, Scotland, 30 December 1890-London, Ontario 22 October 1982) was a Scottish-born Canadian Christian journalist, novelist and biographer.
Hunter emigrated to Canada in 1913 at the age of 22 and began his journalistic career with the Peterborough, Ontario Farm and Dairy newspaper in that same year.
Dr. Hunter's 1951 novel, Thine is the Kingdom, received first prize in an international fiction contest; in 1956 he was named "author of the quarter century" by Zondervan Publishing Company.
[4] The villain of the story is a close-shaven German archaeologist who leads a band of Arab "Hooded Ones," including the cowardly "Abid of the Scar," who stabs a girl in the back.
Thine Is the Kingdom, a cold-war mystery story moving from the gloomy environs of bureaucratic Moscow to the tranquility which pervades the Canadian woodland in summer" won $4000 first prize in the second International Christian Fiction Contest.