James Lansdale Hodson OBE (1891–1956) was a British novelist, scriptwriter and journalist.
He was a war correspondent and northern editor of the Daily Mail.
[1] Born in Bury, Lancashire in 1891, Hodson worked as a war correspondent during World War II, and he wrote a war diary that was published by Victor Gollancz as a series of 7 books; Through the Dark Night, Towards the Morning, Before Daybreak, 'War in the Sun, Home Front, And Yet I like America and The Sea and the Land.
He toured the United States from 1943-44, writing And Yet I Like America on his return.
[3] His novel Return To The Wood (1955) became a play Hamp (by John Wilson)[4] and then a film King & Country (1964, directed by Joseph Losey and starring Dirk Bogarde).