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Biography

Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II in 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a full-time writer in 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; in 1969, he moved to the Bahamas to avoid Canadian and U.S. income taxes, which were claiming 90% of his income. For other uses, see Luton (disambiguation). ... Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds) is a county in England that forms part of the East of England region. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 967 AD  Area  -  Total 130,395 km²  50,346 sq mi  Population  -  2006 estimate... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... Flight into danger By: Arthur Hailey Full Cast and Crew for Flight Into Danger (1956) (TV) Plot Outline: A small planes pilot must take the controls of a large passenger plane when the pilots fall victim to food poisoning. ... Hotel Hotel is a novel by Arthur Hailey. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... An income tax is a tax levied on the financial income of persons, corporations, or other legal entities. ...

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 environments and systems function and how these affect society and its inhabitants.

Critics often dismissed Hailey's success as the result of a formulaic style in which he centered a crisis on an ordinary character, then inflated the suspense by hopping among multiple related plotlines. However, he was so popular with readers that his books were guaranteed to become best-sellers.

He would spend about one year researching a subject, followed by six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months writing the book. That aggressive research — tracking rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian jungle at age 67 for The Evening News (1990), or reading 27 books on the hotel industry for Hotel - gave his novels a realism that appealed to readers, even as some critics complained that he used it to mask a lack of literary talent. Evening News may refer to: An evening television news broadcast The CBS Evening News The ITV Evening News Le Journal de 20 Heures, a newscast presented on France 2 at 8:00 CET in Metropolitan France[1], and in Canada on TV5 at 6:30 North American Eastern Time. ...

Many of his books have reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and more than 170 million copies have been sold worldwide in 40 languages. Many have been made into movies and Hotel was made into a long-running television series. Airport became a blockbuster movie with stunning visual effects. The New York Times bestseller list is a weekly chart in The New York Times newspaper that keeps track of the best-selling books of the week. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... The television drama Hotel aired on ABC from 1983 to 1988. ...

A Canadian citizen whose children live in Canada and California, Hailey made his home in Lyford Cay, an exclusive residential resort on New Providence Island in the Bahamas with his second wife Sheila (who wrote "I Married a Best-Seller" in 1978). Hailey's grandchildren include Paul Hailey, Emma Hailey and Charlotte Hailey, and Brooke Hailey who are students in Northern California; Ryan Hailey, a talented young bass player and vocalist in a San Francisco band Erogenous Jones, a trio known for writing witty, sardonic lyrics; and Chris Hailey, who is currently working towards an audio engineering degree in Seattle, Washington. Lyford Cay - The area was reclaimed from swamp land in the late 1950s by Canadian industrialist E.P. Taylor, with the dream of building an exclusive community. ... (This article is about the island in the Bahamas. ...

Hailey died in 2004.

Bibliography

• Runway Zero-Eight (1958) - in-flight medical emergency, caused by food poisoning; spoofed in the movie Airplane!. This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour!, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight (ISBN 0-440-17546-1).
• The Final Diagnosis (1959) - hospital politics as seen from the pathology department
• In High Places (1960) - Cold War Era politics in North America
• Hotel (1965) - hotels
• Airport (1968) - airport politics
• Wheels (1971) - automobile industry
• The Moneychangers (1975) - banks
• Overload (1979) - power crisis in California
• Strong Medicine (1984) - pharmaceutical industry
• The Evening News (1990) - newscasters
• Detective (1997) - investigation politics

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See also

• List of novelists

Well-known authors of novels, listed by country: See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors // Albania Ismail Kadare Ancient Latin Authors Petronius Argentina Marcos Aguinis César Aira Federico Andahazi Roberto Arlt Adolfo Bioy Casares Abelardo Castillo Julio Cortázar, (1914...

External links

• An article that includes the relation of Flight into Danger, Zero Hour!, and Runway Zero Eight
• Rediscovering Arthur Hailey at The Bahamas News
• 1990 Real Audio interview with Arthur Hailey by Don Swaim