James Courage

James Francis Courage was born in Christchurch on 9 February 1903, the son of a sheep farmer, and grew up near Amberley. He attended Christ's College, then St John's College, Oxford, from 1923, and settled in London in 1927. Treated for tuberculosis, he returned home for a long stay in the mid-thirties. A fire warden during the war, then an employee and manager of a Hampstead bookshop from 1940 to 1950, prone to depression and long in psychotherapy, he died in Hampstead on 5 October 1963; his ashes were scattered in the Waipara.

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• NovelA Way of LoveJames Courage · 1959Literature