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1、Arthur Hailey,A famous author,Im Arthur Hailey,Brief introduction about Arthur Hailey,Nationality: British and Canadian. Born: Luton, Bedfordshire, 1920; emigrated to Canada in 1947: became citizen, 1952. Education: Elementary schools in England. Military Service: Served as a pilot in the Royal Air
2、Force, 1939-47: Flight Lieutenant. Career: Office boy and clerk, London, 1934-39; assistant editor, 1947-49, and editor, 1949-53, Bus and Truck Transport, Toronto; sales promotion manager, Trailmobile Canada, Toronto, 1953-56. Since 1956 freelance writer. Awards: Canadian Council of Authors and Arti
3、sts award, 1956; Best Canadian TV Playwright award, 1957, 1958; Doubleday Prize Novel award, 1962.,His career,He had begun his writing life as a journalist on a transport magazine, but got his break as a fiction writer when, during a flight, he began to ponder what would happen if both pilots fell s
4、ick from food poisoning. The storyline led to his first big success. Hailey said he detached himself from his plots and characters once a book had been sold to Hollywood. Having tried script-writing at one stage in his career, he saw movie-making as a completely different discipline from novel writi
5、ng and decided to stick with what he knew.,For much of his career, Hailey was either derided or ignored by literary critics, who often felt his plots were contrived and his characters wooden. However, readers loved his work, and two years before his death in 2004 many of his major books were reissue
6、d.,His main works,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
7、 crisis in California Strong Medicine (1984) pharmaceutical industry The Evening News (1990) newscasters Detective (1997) investigation politics,Hailey bestsellers include:,Hotel Airport Motor city The Final Diagnosis The Money Changers Strong Medicine Evening news,The influence of his works,Many of
8、 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 successful film with dramatic visual effects.,His dea
9、th,When Hailey died in his sleep at his waterfront home in November 2004, his family staged a celebration of his life at the exclusive Lyford Cay Club in Nassau, Bahamas. News of his death was published in more than 300 major newspapers worldwide. His wife Sheila told John Marquis that her husbands
10、only ambition as a writer was “to see his name on the spine of a book - nothing more.“ In the event, his name appeared on the spines of nearly 200 million books, accumulating a fortune that enabled him to live in luxury alongside the likes of Sir Sean Connery, billionaire Joe Lewis and Canadian fash
11、ion tycoon Peter Nygard.,This is one of the bestsellers! It is called Hotel,Stage photo,How did he write the Hotel,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(秘鲁人) 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 disguise a lack of literary talent.,THE END,Thank you very much!,
