Good Earth. Of this, he liked to say "Better above the Good Earth than below it". Death Hamilton died on 9 June 1970, aged 79, in St Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea, as a result of heart failure. He was cremated. In popular culture Later in his life, Hamilton became friends with John Symonds, author and editor, who wrote Conversations with Gerald about their acquaintance. There is a classic account of Hamilton in later life in Robin Maugham's second volume of autobiography, Search for Nirvana (1979). Hamilton was portrayed by Toby Jones in the BBC production Christopher and His Kind (2011). Works As Young as Sophocles, Secker & Warburg, 1937 Mr Norris and I, Allan Wingate, 1956 The Way it Was With Me, Leslie Frewin, London, 1969, Jacaranda, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1961 Emma in Blue, Allan Wingate, 1957 Blood Royal, Times Publishing/Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, 1964 Further reading Cullen, Tom. The Man Who Was Norris: The life of Gerald Hamilton. Daedalus, 2014; Page, Norman. Auden and Isherwood: the Berlin Years. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. Symonds, John. Conversations with Gerald, Duckworth, 1974; Bureau of Military History External links Gerald Hamilton: A Biographical Sketch of a Friend & Acquaintance of Aleister Crowley References 1890 births 1970 deaths English people of Scottish descent English criminals English memoirists LGBT memoirists English LGBT writers People convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom Date of death missing Place of death missing Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism 20th-century LGBT people