David Hughes (novelist)
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David Hughes (born July 27, 1930, in Alton, Hampshire, died April 11, 2005) was an English novelist. His best known work included The Pork Butcher (Schocken, 1985) and The Joke of the Century (Taplinger, 1986).
He went to school at Eggar's Grammar School, Alton, and King's College School, Wimbledon. His father, Fielden Hughes, was headmaster at another Wimbledon school and also wrote a number of novels.
He married the Swedish actress Mai Zetterling in 1958 and collaborated with her on a number of films and books.
They were divorced in 1976 and he remarried in 1980.
His later books included a memoir of his friend Gerald Durrell, called Himself and Other Animals, published in 1997.
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