William Henry Hudson (1841-1922)

Death: 18th August 1922
Location: Broadwater Cemetery, Worthing, West Sussex, England
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Argentine-British author, naturalist and ornithologist who also wrote several novels. He was born in Argentina to U.S parents and moved to England in 1874. He found fame with his books on ornithology and the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903) and A Shepherd's Life (1910). He was also a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Hudson's best known novel is Green Mansions (1904) which was adapted into a film directed by Mel Ferrer in 1959. The film starred Audrey Hepburn as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller played by Anthony Perkins.
Ernest Hemingway referred to Hudson's The Purple Land (1885) in his novel The Sun Also Rises, and to Far Away and Long Ago (1918) in his posthumous novel The Garden of Eden (1986).

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