John Hopkins (travel writer)

John Hopkins
John Hopkins (right) and Joe McPhillips (left) on ‘The White Nile’.
Born	August 5, 1938 Orange, New Jersey, United States
Occupation	diarist, novelist
Nationality	American
Period	1969–

John Livingston Hopkins, Jr.^[1] (born August 5, 1938 in Orange, New Jersey) is a writer who lived for many years in Tangier and was a member of the Anglo/American literary crowd of the 1960s and 1970s, becoming friends with William Burroughs, Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles.^[2] He has written 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. He lives in Oxford. He married Ellen Ann Ragsdale in 1977; they have three sons.^[3]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Attempt (1967)
• Tangier Buzzless Flies (1972)
• The Flight of the Pelican (1983)
• In the Chinese Mountains (1990)
• All I Wanted was Company (1999)

Diaries

• The Tangier Diaries 1962-1979 (1995)
• The South American Diaries (2007)
• The White Nile Diaries (2014)

References

1. 20th Century Cabells and their kin, Randolph Wall Cabell, Cabell Foundation, 1993
2. Miles, Barry. William S. Burroughs: A Life. W&N. ISBN 9780297867258. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
3. 20th Century Cabells and their kin, Randolph Wall Cabell, Cabell Foundation, 1993