William Stevenson (Canadian writer)
William Henry Stevenson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 June 1924 Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | 26 November 2013 (aged 89) |
| Occupation | author |
William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist.[1]
His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven.[2] Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book, Intrepid's Last Case. He published his autobiography in 2012.
In 1976 Stevenson released the book, 90 Minutes at Entebbe.[3] It was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described.[4][5]
Bibliography
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- The Yellow Wind, 1959, Houghton Mifflin Co., LCCN 59--11830, OCLC 1227740. Reportage on the People's Republic of China between 1954 and 1957.
- The Bushbabies, 1965, Houghton Mifflin Co., LCCN 65--22509, OCLC 230064. Children's story inspired by his own family's adventures in Africa.
- The Bormann Brotherhood, 1973 (non-fiction)
- A Man Called Intrepid, 1976, Harcourt, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (non-fiction)
- The Ghosts of Africa, 1980, Harcourt, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. Historical fiction set in World War I colonial German East Africa.
- Intrepid's Last Case, 1983, Michael Joseph Ltd, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (non-fiction)
- Eclipse, 1986 (fiction)
- Booby Trap, 1987 (fiction)
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam, 1990, Dutton, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. Co-written with his wife Monika Jensen-Stevenson. (non-fiction)
- 90 Minutes at Entebbe, Bantam, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (non-fiction)
- Strike Zion 1967 (non-fiction)
- Zanek!; A Chronicle of the Israeli Force (non-fiction)
- The Revolutionary King: : the true-life sequel to the King and I, 2001, Constable and Robinson, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II, 2006, Arcade Publishing, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (biography)
- Past to Present: A Reporter's Story of War, Spies, People, and Politics, Lyons Press, 2012.[6]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Publisher's biographical notes in Intrepid's Last Case.
- Kiss the Truth Goodbye review at miafacts.com (only in respect of Stevenson's wife, and the existence of that book)
- William Stevenson at IMDb
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