Editing Arthur Hailey

{{Short description|British Canadian writer (1920–2004)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name          = Arthur Hailey
| image         = Arthur Hailey.jpg
| birth_name    = Arthur Frederick Hailey
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|df=yes|1920|4|5}}
| birth_place   = [[Luton]], [[Bedfordshire]], England
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2004|11|24|1920|4|5}}
| death_place   = [[Lyford Cay]], [[New Providence]], [[The Bahamas|Bahamas]]
| occupation    = Novelist
| nationality   = British/Canadian
| notableworks  = ''[[Hotel (Hailey novel)|Hotel]]'' (1965) <br> ''[[Airport (Hailey novel)|Airport]]'' (1968) <br> ''[[Wheels (novel)|Wheels]]'' (1971)
| spouses       = {{Nowrap|Joan Fishwick (1944–1950; div.)<br/> Sheila Dunlop (m.1951)}}
| children      = 6
}}

'''Arthur Frederick Hailey''', [[Air Efficiency Award|AE]] (5 April 1920 – 24 November 2004) was a British/Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His books, which include such best sellers as ''[[Hotel (Hailey novel)|Hotel]]'' (1965), ''[[Airport (Hailey novel)|Airport]]'' (1968), ''[[Wheels (novel)|Wheels]]'' (1971), ''[[The Moneychangers]]'' (1975), and ''[[Overload (novel)|Overload]]'' (1979), have sold 170 million copies in 38 languages.<ref name=Holley>{{cite news |last=Holley |first=Joe |date=27 November 2004 |title=Arthur Hailey, British Author Of 'Hotel' and 'Airport,' Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15704-2004Nov26.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=6 February 2017 }}</ref>

==Early life==
Arthur Frederick Hailey was born on 5 April 1920, in [[Luton]], [[Bedfordshire]], England, the only child of George Wellington Hailey, a factory worker, and Elsie Wright Hailey. An avid reader,<ref name=Independent>{{cite news |last=Guttridge |first=Peter |date=24 November 2004 |title=Arthur Hailey |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/arthur-hailey-534720.html |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=6 February 2017}}</ref> Hailey began to write poems, plays and stories at a young age.<ref name=Telegraph/> He once said, "My mother left me off chores so I could write."<ref name=Independent/> Elsie encouraged her son to learn typing and [[shorthand]] so that he might become a clerk instead of a factory worker.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Arthur Hailey |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1477599/Arthur-Hailey.html |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=27 November 2004 |access-date=7 February 2014}}</ref>

At fourteen, Hailey failed to win a scholarship which would have enabled him to continue his schooling.<ref>{{cite news |last=Christy |first=Marian|date=25 April 1990 |title=The unstoppable Arthur Hailey |url=http://cache.boston.com/globe/magazine/7-13/interview/425.htm|newspaper=The Boston Globe Magazine |access-date=7 February 2017}}</ref> From 1934 to 1939 he was an office boy and clerk<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Wohlfert |first=Lee |date=31 March 1975 |title=Arthur Hailey Writes a New Novel About Big Money—and He Should Know |url=http://people.com/archive/arthur-hailey-writes-a-new-novel-about-big-money-and-he-should-know-vol-3-no-12/ |magazine=People |access-date=7 February 2017 }}</ref> in London. He joined the [[Royal Air Force]] in 1939, and served as a pilot during [[World War II]], eventually rising to the rank of [[flight lieutenant]].<ref name=Telegraph/> In 1947, unhappy with the [[Attlee ministry|post-war Labour government]],<ref name=Independent/> he emigrated to Canada, becoming a dual citizen.<ref name=Scotsman>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Arthur Hailey |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/arthur-hailey-1-563823 |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=29 November 2004 |access-date=7 February 2017 }}</ref> Settling in Toronto,<ref name=Telegraph/> he held a variety of jobs in such fields as real estate, sales, and advertising.<ref name=Holley/> He was editor of a trade magazine called ''Bus and Truck Transport''.<ref name=Scotsman/> During these years, he continued to write.<ref name=Independent/>

==Career==
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://torontoist.com/2011/08/historicist_haileys_comet-2/ |title=Historicist: Hailey's Comet |last=Plummer |first=Kevin |date=13 August 2011 |website=Torontoist|access-date=9 February 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Rutherford>{{cite book |last=Rutherford |first=Paul |date=1990 |title=When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952–1967|url=https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth |url-access=registration |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth/page/282 282]}}</ref> It was adapted as a novel by "John Castle" (a pseudonym for Ronald Payne and John Garrod), with Hailey credited as co-author; it was published by Britain's Souvenir Press in 1958 under its original title, but renamed ''Runway Zero-Eight'' ([[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]) for its 1959 American publication.<ref name=Sheila>Hailey, Sheila (1978). ''I Married a Best Seller: My Life with Arthur Hailey''. Open Road Media, 2014. Kindle Edition.</ref> The story was filmed in 1957 as ''[[Zero Hour!]]'' ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]), and for television in 1971 as ''[[Terror in the Sky]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Van Riper |first=A. Bowdoin |date=2004 |title=Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture |location=College Station |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |page=114}}</ref>

With the success of ''Flight into Danger'', Hailey was in demand as a television writer, and wrote for such shows as ''[[Westinghouse Studio One|Studio One]]'', ''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]'', ''[[Playhouse 90]]'', and ''[[Suspense (U.S. TV series)|Suspense]]''. In 1959, he adapted his [[teleplay]] ''No Deadly Medicine'' (for which he won an [[Emmy Award|Emmy]] nomination) into his first novel ''The Final Diagnosis.'' Published by Doubleday, it is the story of the chief pathologist at a Burlington, Pennsylvania, hospital. The book received good reviews,<ref>{{cite news |last=Fuller |first=Edmund |author-link=Edmund Fuller |date=20 September 1959 |title=Hospital Microcosm |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/09/20/89240558.pdf|newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 February 2017 |url-access=subscription  }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Final Diagnosis |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/arthur-hailey-7/the-final-diagnosis/ |newspaper=Kirkus Reviews |date=n.d. |access-date=9 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211083015/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/arthur-hailey-7/the-final-diagnosis/ |archive-date=11 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was a selection of the [[Literary Guild|Literary Guild of America]].<ref name=Sheila/>
Hailey's second novel, ''In High Places'' (Doubleday) was published in 1962. Dealing with international politics<ref name=Sheila/> the book was again selected by the Literary Guild, and was a best seller in Canada.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=Lewis |date=9 December 1962 |title=In and Out of Books |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/12/09/90890998.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=9 February 2017 |url-access=subscription  }}</ref>

Hailey's commercial breakthrough came in 1965 with publication of ''[[Hotel (Hailey novel)|Hotel]]''<ref name=Thurber>{{cite news |last=Thurber |first=Jon |date=26 November 2004 |title=Arthur Hailey, 84; Bestselling Author of 'Hotel,' 'Airport' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-nov-26-me-hailey26-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> (Doubleday), which followed five days in the lives of employees and residents of New Orleans' luxurious St. Gregory Hotel. The book spent 48 weeks on the [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' Best Seller list]], peaking at No. 3,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hawes.com/1965/1965-04-25.pdf |title=The New York Times Best Seller List April 25, 1965 Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1965 |publisher=Hawes Publications|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> and became the eighth highest-selling novel of the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bestsellers.lib.virginia.edu/decade/1960 |title=1965: Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2016 |website=20th-Century American Bestsellers |publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=10 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112173542/http://bestsellers.lib.virginia.edu/decade/1960 |archive-date=12 January 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It established the template for Hailey's future works: ordinary people involved in extraordinary situations in a business or industry which is described in meticulous detail.<ref name=Independent/>

Following the success of ''Hotel'', Hailey moved to California. In 1968 he achieved international fame<ref name="O'Donnell">{{cite news |last=O'Donnell |first=Michelle |date=26 November 2004 |title=Arthur Hailey, Novelist Who Had a Hit in 'Airport,' Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/nyregion/arthur-hailey-novelist-who-had-a-hit-in-airport-dies-at-84.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref> with his fourth novel, ''[[Airport (Hailey novel)|Airport]]'' (Doubleday), the story of one eventful night at a midwestern international airport. The novel was No. 1 in the ''New York Times'' for 30 weeks, and became the top-selling novel of the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bestsellers.lib.virginia.edu/decade/1960 |title=1968: Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2016 |website=20th-Century American Bestsellers |publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=10 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112173542/http://bestsellers.lib.virginia.edu/decade/1960 |archive-date=12 January 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Airport (1970 film)|film adaptation]], released in 1970, was the second-highest-grossing film of the year (second only to ''[[Love Story (1970 film)|Love Story]]'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.listal.com/list/top-grossing-films-1970 |title=Top Grossing Films of 1970 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Listal |access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> and received ten [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations, including Best Picture.<ref name=Academy>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1971 |title=The 43rd Academy Awards 1971 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2015 |website=oscars.org|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=5 February 2017 }}</ref> The success of the film, together with that of 1972's ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'', led to the proliferation of "[[disaster film]]s" during the 1970s,<ref>{{cite book |last=Keane |first=Stephen |date=2012 |title=Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=29}}</ref> which included three additional films in what became the ''Airport'' franchise.

After the financial success of ''Airport'', on the advice of his tax attorney, Hailey moved as a tax exile to the [[Bahamas]]<ref name=Comet>{{cite news |last=Davis |first=William A. |date=13 December 1982 |title=Hailey's comet of best-sellers |url=http://cache.boston.com/globe/magazine/7-13/interview/1213.htm |newspaper=The Boston Globe Magazine |access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> settling in [[Lyford Cay]] on [[New Providence Island]]. He had intended to stay for just two years, but liked it so much<ref name=Comet/> that he remained there for the rest of his life. In 1971, he published ''[[Wheels (novel)|Wheels]]'' (Doubleday), set in the automobile industry; like ''Airport'', it was a no. 1 ''New York Times'' best seller,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hawes.com/1971/1971-11-07.pdf |title=The New York Times Best Seller List November 7, 1971 Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1971 |publisher=Hawes Publications|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> and the highest-selling novel of its year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bestsellers.lib.virginia.edu/decade/1970 |title=1971: Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2016 |website=20th-Century American Bestsellers |publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> Hailey followed it with two additional no. 1 sellers: ''[[The Moneychangers]]'' (Doubleday, 1975),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hawes.com/1975/1975-05-04.pdf |title=The New York Times Best Seller List May 4, 1975 Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1975 |publisher=Hawes Publications|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> about the banking industry; and ''[[Overload (novel)|Overload]]'' (Doubleday, 1979),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hawes.com/1979/1979-02-25.pdf |title=The New York Times Best Seller List February 25, 1979 Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1979 |publisher=Hawes Publications|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> about an electric utility company.

In 1979, following publication of ''Overload'', Hailey announced his retirement. After undergoing quadruple heart bypass surgery, however, he felt rejuvenated, and returned to work.<ref>{{cite news |last=Davis |first=William A.|date=13 December 1982 |title=Hailey's comet of best-sellers |url=http://cache.boston.com/globe/magazine/7-13/interview/1213.htm |newspaper=The Boston Globe Magazine |access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref> His novel ''[[Strong Medicine (novel)|Strong Medicine]]'' (Doubleday), about the pharmaceutical industry, was published in 1984 and was another major best seller; it became the thirteenth highest-selling novel of the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bestsellers.lib.virginia.edu/decade/1980 |title=20th-Century American Bestsellers 1984: Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2016 |website=library.virginia.edu|publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref> His commercial success had declined somewhat<ref name=Hamilton>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Geoff |last2=Jones |first2=Brian |date=2013 |title=Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction |edition=2nd |type=PDF e-book|location=New York |publisher=Infobase Learning |isbn=978-1-4381-4065-0}}</ref> by 1990 with publication of ''[[The Evening News (novel)|The Evening News]]'' (Doubleday), and with his final novel, ''[[Detective (novel)|Detective]]'' (Crown), which appeared in 1997. Hailey continued to write, but—except for the slim ''The Lyford Legacy: A Brief History of Lyford Cay from 1788'' (Lyford Cay Foundation, 2000),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=6845 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207140134/http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=6845 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 February 2009 |title=Hailey, Arthur |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=ABC Bookworld |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref>—Hailey now wrote only as a hobby.<ref name=Holley/>

Arthur Hailey's papers are housed at the [[Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library]], [[University of Toronto]], and at the Harry C. Moore Library of the [[College of The Bahamas]].<ref>Lundstrom, T.E. (2013). The Arthur Hailey Collection. ''The International Journal of Bahamian Studies, 19'', 1-2. Retrieved from http://journals.sfu.ca/cob/index.php/files/article/viewFile/183/235</ref>

==Writing method and critical reception==
[[File:Обложка Артур Хейли На высотах твоих.jpg|right|thumb|201px|The cover of the Soviet edition of Hailey's ''[[In High Places (Hailey novel)|In High Places]]'']]
Hailey would usually spend three years<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4044777.stm |title=Arthur Hailey: King of the bestsellers |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=24 November 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=14 February 2017}}</ref> on each book. First, he would dedicate a year to research, then six months reviewing his notes, and finally 18 months writing.<ref name=Thurber/> His research was painstaking:<ref name=Scotsman/> he read 27 books about the hotel industry for ''Hotel'',<ref name="O'Donnell"/> he spent months at a Detroit car plant for ''Wheels'',<ref name=Scotsman/> and he spent time—at the age of 67—with rebel guerillas in the jungles of Peru<ref name=Independent/> for ''The Evening News''. Hailey had no discernible literary pretensions; he said, "I'm a storyteller and anything else is incidental."<ref name=Thurber/>

Hailey was not a critical favourite. In the ''New York Times'', Martin Levin called him "a plodding sort of writer."<ref>{{cite news |last=Levin |first=Martin |date=7 April 1968|title=Reader's Report |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/04/07/170453222.pdf|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=5 February 2017 |url-access=subscription  }}</ref> [[Martha Gellhorn]], reviewing ''The Evening News'' for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' wrote, "This is not a book you cannot put down; it is a book you can hardly hold up. It will sell in millions and be translated into 34 languages. Possibly it is more readable in Icelandic or Urdu."<ref name=Telegraph/> And ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, reviewing ''Wheels'' together with [[Harold Robbins]]'s ''The Betsy'', said, "Yes, junk fans, it is a mano a mano for novelists who are all thumbs. Two of the greatest schlockmeisters in the history of solid waste have just published novels about the auto industry."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Skow |first=John |date=13 December 1971 |title=Books: Internal Combustion |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,910192,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=13 February 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

But Hailey's ability to tell a story was recognised by some critics. In the ''New York Times'', John Reed conceded, in a review of ''Wheels'', that "Mr. Hailey is nothing if not a competent craftsman."<ref>{{cite news |last=Reed |first=John |date=19 September 1971 |title=Wheels |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/19/archives/wheels-by-arthur-hailey-374-pp-new-york-doubleday-co-795-dont-buy-a.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 February 2017}}</ref> [[Christopher Lehmann-Haupt]], in his ''New York Times'' review of ''The Moneychangers'' wrote, "What I had in mind was diversion, and, to tell the shameful truth, I found it."<ref>{{cite news |last=Lehmann-Haupt |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |date=28 July 1975 |title=Books of the Times Calculators at 50 Paces |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/28/archives/books-of-the-times-calculators-at-50-paces.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 February 2017}}</ref> Reviewing ''Detective'', ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote, "Old pro Hailey... remains adept at hooking readers with his propulsive brand of storytelling."<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Detective |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-517-70025-9 |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |date=30 June 1997 |access-date=13 February 2017 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Hailey was married twice. In 1944 he married Joan Fishwick (1918–2004), with whom he had three children before divorcing in 1950. In 1951 he married Sheila Dunlop (1927–2017), with whom he also had three children.<ref name=Holley/> In 1978 Sheila Hailey published ''I Married a Best Seller: My Life with Arthur Hailey'' (Doubleday), which was not always complimentary,<ref name=Hamilton/> but the couple remained together for 53 years.

Arthur Hailey died at age 84 in his sleep on 24 November 2004, at his home in [[Lyford Cay]] in the Bahamas, of what doctors believed to be a [[stroke]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Jankiewicz |first=Adam |date=26 November 2004 |title=Arthur Hailey, 84, novelist who wrote 'Airport,' 'Hotel' |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/11/26/arthur_hailey_84_novelist_who_wrote_airport_hotel/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=14 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2007/news/bylines-around-the-world-after-novelist-death-exclusive/ |title=Bylines around the world after novelist death exclusive |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=25 June 2007 |website=HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk |access-date=14 February 2014}}</ref>

==Novels==
* ''[[Flight into Danger (novel)|Flight into Danger]]'' (1958), with John Castle
* ''[[The Final Diagnosis (novel)|The Final Diagnosis]]'' (1959)
* ''[[In High Places (Hailey novel)|In High Places]]'' (1962)
* ''[[Hotel (Hailey novel)|Hotel]]'' (1965)
* ''[[Airport (Hailey novel)|Airport]]'' (1968)
* ''[[Wheels (novel)|Wheels]]'' (1971)
* ''[[The Moneychangers]]'' (1975)
* ''[[Overload (novel)|Overload]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Strong Medicine (novel)|Strong Medicine]]'' (1984)
* ''[[The Evening News (novel)|The Evening News]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Detective (novel)|Detective]]'' (1997)

==Selected screen adaptations==
* ''[[Zero Hour!]]'' ([[Paramount Pictures]], 1957) Based on ''[[Flight into Danger]]''
**Directed by [[Hall Bartlett]]; written by Hailey, Bartlett, [[John C. Champion|John Champion]]<br>Starring [[Dana Andrews]], [[Linda Darnell]], [[Sterling Hayden]]
* ''[[The Young Doctors (film)|The Young Doctors]]'' ([[United Artists]], 1961) Based on ''The Final Diagnosis''
**Directed by [[Phil Karlson]]; written by [[Joseph Hayes (author)|Joseph Hayes]]<br>Starring [[Fredric March]], [[Ben Gazzara]], [[Dick Clark]]
* ''[[Hotel (1967 film)|Hotel]]'' ([[Warner Bros.]], 1967)
**Directed by [[Richard Quine]]; written by [[Wendell Mayes]]<br>Starring [[Rod Taylor]], [[Catherine Spaak]], [[Karl Malden]]
* ''[[Airport (1970 film)|Airport]]'' ([[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]], 1970)
**Directed and written by [[George Seaton]]<br>Starring [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Dean Martin]], [[Jean Seberg]]<br>Nominated for ten [[Academy Awards]], including best picture; won Best Actress in a Supporting Role ([[Helen Hayes]])<ref name=Academy/>
* ''Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers'' (NBC TV Miniseries, 1976)
**Directed by [[Boris Sagal]]; written by [[Dean Riesner]], Stanford Whitmore<br>Starring [[Kirk Douglas]], [[Christopher Plummer]], [[Timothy Bottoms]], and [[Joan Collins]]<br>Nominated for five [[Emmy Award|Emmys]], including Outstanding Miniseries or Movie; won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special (Christopher Plummer)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emmys.com/shows/moneychangers-nbc-world-premiere-big-event |title=The Moneychangers NBC World Premiere The Big Event NBC |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Emmys.com |publisher=Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |access-date=14 February 2017}}</ref>
* ''Wheels'' (NBC TV Miniseries, 1978)
**Directed by [[Jerry London]]; written by Robert Hamilton, [[Millard Lampell]], Nancy Lynn Schwartz, [[Hank Searls]]<br>Starring [[Rock Hudson]], [[Lee Remick]], [[Blair Brown]]<br>Nominated for two Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special (Lee Remick)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emmys.com/shows/wheels |title=Wheels NBC |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Emmys.com |publisher=Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |access-date=14 February 2017}}</ref>
* ''[[Hotel (U.S. TV series)|Arthur Hailey's Hotel]]'' (ABC TV Series, 1983–1988)
**Starring [[James Brolin]], [[Connie Sellecca]], [[Anne Baxter]]
* ''Strong Medicine'' (Syndicated TV Miniseries, 1987)
**Directed by [[Guy Green (filmmaker)|Guy Green]]; written by [[Rita Lakin]]<br>Starring [[Pamela Sue Martin]], [[Patrick Duffy]], [[Dick Van Dyke]]
* ''Detective'' (Hallmark TV Miniseries, 2005)
**Directed by David S. Cass Sr.; written by Philip Rosenberg<br>Starring [[Tom Berenger]], [[Annabeth Gish]], [[Rick Gomez]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{cite news |type=obit |date=27 November 2004 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1477599/Arthur-Hailey.html |title=Arthur Hailey |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=2024-03-22}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090207140134/http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=6845 Hailey, Arthur] at BC Author Bank (archived). Includes the relation of ''Flight into Danger'', ''Zero Hour!'', and ''Runway Zero Eight''.
* {{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/books/review/tom-hanks-by-the-book.html |title=How Arthur Hailey made Tom Hanks a reader |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=13 October 2017}}

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