Caliban Shrieks

About the author

Jack Hilton

1 Published Books

Jack Hilton was born in the opening days of 1900 in Oldham, Lancashire. He served in the army during the First World War and, after a period of homelessness and working odd jobs, became an active member of Rochdale's Worker's Rights movement, where his rallying speeches led to a court-order banning him from further speechwriting. Instead, Hilton turned to prose writing as an outlet, using stints o n the dole to hone his immense literary gift and produce his autobiographical novel, Caliban Shrieks. A chance encounter with an editor in 1934 led to Hilton's discovery and paved the way for a short, but dramatic, writing career that included the publication of five books - including Caliban Shrieks - and greatly influenced the course of political writing in British literature.

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