John Hinsdale Thompson

John Hinsdale Thompson

Michigan bookseller and literature professor at Stephens College, Missouri. He edited the literary magazineSignatures: Work in Progress (1936-38), and was himself a writer of fiction. In 1934, Thompson acquired the "˜Before Sunrise' notebook, containing JJ's translation of Vor Sonnenaufgang by Gerhart Hauptmann. JJ, acting through Paul Léon, refused Thompson permission to publish the translation, which in the 1970s was acquired by the Huntington Library and published as Joyce and Hauptmann: Before Sunrise: James Joyce's Translation, ed. Jill Perkins (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1978) William Brockman