Hamilton, Donald

Swedish-American author, born in Uppsala as Donald Bengtsson Hamilton. When he was a child, his father, who was a doctor, moved to the USA, and in 1924 his wife and their four children followed. The re-united family settled in Boston, Massachusetts. Donald went to school there, and later studied at the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1938. During the war, he served in the American navy, but also married Kathleen Stick; the marriage lasted until her death in 1989, and the couple had two daughters and two sons. After the war, the family settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After his wife’s death, he lived on his yacht Kathleen in Santa Fe for several years, before returning to Europe at the turn of the century, where he eventually settled in Visby and died at the age of 90.