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James joined them and lived with his parents for over a decade while working as a journalist for a number of British newspapers. In 1921, James's parents moved to Woodford Green, Essex. English literature, history and music (he played the piano very well) were to remain Hilton's main interests for the rest of his life. Then he joined the Christ's College, Cambridge University, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History and English in 1921. From 1915 to 1918, he attended the Leys School in Cambridge, where he also became editor of the school magazine. His parents were schoolteachers at Walthamstow, a suburb of London where James grew up and studied in public schools. James Hilton, the only son of John and Elizabeth Hilton, was born on 9 September, 1900 in Leigh in Lancashire, England (at his grandfather's house). But who was James Hilton and how did he come to write this novel? Why did Lost Horizon (both the novel and the film) become so popular around the world? And which place(s) inspired Hilton's Shangri-La? Here we explore these questions. James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon published in 1933 established Tibet in Utopian literature and introduced a new word to our language - Shangri-La. Soon after that the journey to Shangri-La was begun. He was also interested in the mountain beyond the valley it was a sensational peak, by any standards, and he was surprised that some traveller had not made much of it in the kind of book that a journey in Tibet invariably elicits. James Hilton and Shangri-La Rasoul Sorkhabi