John Livingston Hopkins Jr.[1] (5 August 1938 – 25 April 2021) was an American novelist and travel writer.

[2] Hopkins was born in Orange, New Jersey.

Hopkins lived in Tangier, Morocco from 1962 to 1979 where he was a member of the Anglo/American literary crowd of the 1960s and 1970s, becoming friends with William Burroughs, Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles.

[3] [4] He wrote several novels, among them Tangier Buzzless Flies and The Flight of the Pelican, and travel memoirs including The Tangier Diaries, The South American Diaries and The White Nile Diaries.

Hopkins married Ellen Ann Ragsdale in 1977.