James Hilton (novelist) Horizon" titled "Shangri-La" and written by Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altieri. It was licensed by the publisher William Morrow (an imprint of Harper Collins) and approved by the heirs to the Hilton Estate, Elizabeth Hill and Mary Porterfield. "Shangri-La" continues James Hilton's tale, moving it forward in time to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and from there travelling back to the 1930s. In addition to its U.S. publication, the novel was further published in Germany, France, Spain and Portugal and was a "New York Times" Notable Book. A furore was caused in the late 1990s, when Wigan Council (the
Random Harvest Random Harvest Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", the novel was immensely popular, placing second on "The New York Times" list of best-selling novels for the year. The novel was successfully adapted into a film of the same name in 1942 under the direction of Mervyn LeRoy. Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination for their work. Though the film departs from the novel's narrative in several significant ways, the