His education was patchy, and ended just after his fifteenth birthday when his mother withdrew him from Westminster School.Īfter a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist in his early twenties with the publication of Monday Morning (1925), written when he was nineteen. Due to his father's alcoholism and financial ineptitude, the family spent much of Hamilton's childhood living in boarding houses in Chiswick and Hove. The Midnight Bell (1929) is based upon Hamilton's falling in love He was born Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton in the Sussex village of Hassocks, near Brighton, to writer parents. Craven House (1926) and Twopence Coloured (1928) followed, but his first real success was the play Rope (1929, known as Rope's End in America). After a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist in his early twenties with the publication of Monday Morning (1925), written when he was nineteen. His education was patchy, and ended just after his fifteenth birthday when his mother withdrew him from Westminster School. He was born Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton in the Sussex village of Hassocks, near Brighton, to writer parents.
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