Arthur Hailey (5 April 1920 – 24 November 2004) was a British-Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His meticulously researched books, which include such best sellers as "Hotel" (1965), "Airport" (1968), "Wheels" (1971), "The Moneychangers" (1975), and "Overload" (1979), have sold 170 million copies in 38 languages.

Hailey's professional writing career began in 1955 with a script called "Flight into Danger", which was purchased by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and telecast on 3 April 1956. This story of a plane flight in jeopardy after its crew is incapacitated was "the smash hit of the season," won enormous acclaim, and was broadcast internationally.

In 1971 Hailey published "Wheels" (Doubleday), set in the automobile industry it was a No. 1 New York Times best seller, and the highest-selling novel of its year. Hailey followed it with two additional no. 1 sellers: "The Moneychangers" (Doubleday, 1975), about the banking industry; and Overload (Doubleday, 1979), about the energy crisis.

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