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Arthur Hailey


Born
in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, The United Kingdom
April 05, 1920

Died
November 24, 2004

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers


Arthur Hailey was a British/Canadian novelist. After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as Runway Zero Eight ). Following the success of Hotel in 1965, he moved to California; followed by a permanent move to the Bahamas in 1969.

Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how these affect society and its inhabitants.

Critics often dismissed Hailey's success as the result of a formulaic "potboiler" style, in which he caused an ...more

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Airport
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Hotel
4.09 avg rating — 17,985 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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The Final Diagnosis
4.12 avg rating — 6,265 ratings — published 1959 — 127 editions
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Strong Medicine
3.96 avg rating — 5,729 ratings — published 1984 — 98 editions
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Detective
4.04 avg rating — 5,550 ratings — published 1997 — 65 editions
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The Moneychangers
3.97 avg rating — 5,590 ratings — published 1975 — 109 editions
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The Evening News
4.01 avg rating — 4,801 ratings — published 1990 — 91 editions
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Wheels
3.73 avg rating — 4,638 ratings — published 1971 — 112 editions
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3.79 avg rating — 3,320 ratings — published 1978 — 36 editions
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In High Places
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“Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.”
― Hailey
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“Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo - it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that for democracy to function, most of a populace must have something personally that is worth preserving.”
― Arthur Hailey
tags: america, americans, democracy
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“...a private hell was something you lived with alone, even when someone else's casual questions nudged old, raw wounds within yourself.”
― Arthur Hailey, Hotel
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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 1961, 355 pages
 
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Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1999, 324 pages
 
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Detective by Arthur Hailey, 1997, 400 pages
 
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