When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
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| Birth: | 5th April, 1920 |
| Death: | 24th November, 2004 |
| Nationality: | British, Canadian |
| Profession: | Novelist |
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Arthur Hailey was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. He was a British/Canadian novelist, whose works have sold more than 170 million copies in 40 languages. Most of the novels are set within one major industry, such as hotels, banks or airlines, and explore the particular human conflicts sparked-off by that environment. They are notable for their plain style, extreme realism, based on months of detailed research, and a sympathetic down-to-earth hero with whom the reader can easily identify. 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. Following the success of Hotel during 1965, he moved to California; in 1969, he moved to the Bahamas to avoid Canadian and US income taxes, which were claiming a substantial portion of his earnings.
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