{"death_date": "1972", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "name": "John Crompton", "alternate_names": ["John Lambourne", "John Battersby Crompton Lamburn", "J Crompton"], "personal_name": "John Crompton", "birth_date": "1893", "key": "/authors/OL1070067A", "source_records": ["promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-11-12"], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "John Battersby Crompton Lamburn (1893\u20131972) was a British writer who wrote fiction before the Second World War under the name John Lambourne and natural history studies afterwards under the name John Crompton. \r\n\r\nHe was the younger brother of *Just William* author Richmal Crompton.\r\n\r\nSee: <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Battersby_Crompton_Lamburn\">John Battersby Crompton Lamburn</a> at Wikipedia.\r\n\r\n---------------\r\n\r\nJohn Crompton (born 1937) is the author of:\r\nUp The Road and Back;\r\nA Fox Under My Bed."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-09T18:29:05.807487"}}