Iain Hamilton was a British journalist, author and poet. Between 1962-64 he was the editor of The Spectator

The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...

 and for five years he was Editorial Director of the Hutchinson

Hutchinson (publisher)

Hutchinson & Co. was an English book publisher, founded in 1887. The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson, and was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, where it remains as an imprint in the Cornerstone Publishing division...

 group of publishing companies.

The most widely known of his literary works is his biography of Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler CBE was a Hungarian author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria...

 the writer, titled: Koestler published by Secker & Warburg, London 1982. ISBN 0436191016.

Other books by Iain Hamilton include:

• Scotland the Brave
• Spectrum ed. with Ian Gilmour
• The Foster Gang with Henry John May
  Henry John May
  The Very Reverend Henry John May was the Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana from 1890 until 1893. Previously he had been Priest in charge at Enmore, Guyana Vicar of St Swithin's, West Bank Demerara and the Rural Dean of Mindenburg....
  
  
• Embarkation for Cythera
• The Kerry Kyle
• Half a Highlander: An Autobiography of a Scottish Youth

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