John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier – obituary
A central figure in the group that included Paul and Jane Bowles, he lived in a mud hut in the Marrakesh oasis with a Dutch baroness
John Hopkins in Paris in 1999
Credit: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images
John Hopkins, who has died aged 83, was an American novelist and diarist, best known for The Tangier Diaries, a literary history of Tangier from 1962 to 1979. Encouraged in his writing by Paul Bowles, he was a central figure in the group that included Jane Bowles, Tennessee Williams, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin.