Arthur Hailey





Arthur Hailey

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

died
November 24, 2004

gender
male

genre


About this author

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 or...more


Average rating: 3.75 · 22,042 ratings · 452 reviews · 31 distinct works · Similar authors
Airport
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 10,041 ratings — published 1968 — 45 editions
Hotel
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 3,346 ratings — published 1964 — 33 editions
Strong Medicine
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,428 ratings — published 1984 — 20 editions
The Moneychangers
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 1,246 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions
The Final Diagnosis
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,234 ratings — published 1959 — 19 editions
Wheels
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 1,257 ratings — published 1971 — 20 editions
The Evening News
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 1990 — 26 editions
Detective
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 831 ratings — published 1991 — 19 editions
Overload
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 779 ratings — published 1978 — 16 editions
In High Places
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 1961 — 13 editions
More books by Arthur Hailey…
“Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.”
Arthur Hailey

“...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

“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

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