Arthur Hailey

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born

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

died

November 24, 2004

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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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

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Average rating: 3.69 · 10,320 ratings · 278 reviews · 22 distinct works

	Airport 3.78 avg rating — 3,647 ratings — published 1968 — 38 editions	My rating:
	Hotel 3.74 avg rating — 1,845 ratings — published 1964 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Strong Medicine 3.74 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 1984 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Wheels 3.44 avg rating — 741 ratings — published 1971 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Moneychangers 3.61 avg rating — 671 ratings — published 1975 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Final Diagnosis 3.69 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 1959 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Evening News 3.67 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1990 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Detective 3.69 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Overload 3.49 avg rating — 435 ratings — published 1978 — 16 editions	My rating:
	In High Places 3.43 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 1961 — 11 editions	My rating:

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“Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.”
― Arthur 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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