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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

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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 ...more

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	Airport really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41,305 ratings — published 1968 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hotel 4.08 avg rating — 17,496 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Final Diagnosis 4.10 avg rating — 5,998 ratings — published 1959 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strong Medicine 3.95 avg rating — 5,544 ratings — published 1984 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moneychangers 3.97 avg rating — 5,467 ratings — published 1975 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Wheels 3.72 avg rating — 4,543 ratings — published 1971 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	In High Places 3.74 avg rating — 2,506 ratings — published 1961 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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 na茂vely 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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