Richard Mason ( May 16, 1919 - October 13, 1997) Born near Manchester, he was educated in Dorset, worked first on a film magazine and later for the British Council. The Second World War gave him a chance to learn Japanese and he became an interogator of prisoners of war. As an author he wrote The Wind Cannot Read which was finished during the Burma Campaign and The Shadow and the Peak. It was his experiences while he was living in Hong Kong which inspired him to write the novel The World of Suzie Wong,which was later adapted for a film in 1960 starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan.

He died of throat cancer in Rome, Italy.

Bibliography

Fiction

• The Wind Cannot Read 1948
• The Shadow and the Peak
• The World of Suzie Wong

External Links

Internet Movie Database link (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0556922/)