Willard Manus
Encyclopedia
Willard Manus is a Los Angeles
-based novelist, playwright, and journalist. His best known book is Mott the Hoople, the novel from which the British 70s rock band
took their name. He is also the author of This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables, a memoir of life in Lindos
, Rhodes
, Greece
from the 1960s to the 1990s. In addition he has had a dozen other books published, most recently a young adult novel, A Dog Called Leka, which deals with a young lad sailing the Aegean islands in the company of an exceptional dog. Over two dozen of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, regionally and in Europe.
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
-based novelist, playwright, and journalist. His best known book is Mott the Hoople, the novel from which the British 70s rock band
Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople were a British rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.-The early years:Mott The Hoople...
took their name. He is also the author of This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables, a memoir of life in Lindos
Lindos
Lindos is an archaeological site, a town and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rhodes, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies on the east coast of the island...
, Rhodes
Rhodes
Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
from the 1960s to the 1990s. In addition he has had a dozen other books published, most recently a young adult novel, A Dog Called Leka, which deals with a young lad sailing the Aegean islands in the company of an exceptional dog. Over two dozen of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, regionally and in Europe.
Journalism
- Columns
- Southern California Correspondent for Playbill On-Line (1995-2000).
- Monthly columnist (theatre, opera, books, movies, jazz & blues) What's Up Magazine &, Lively-Arts.com.
Books
- Novels
- Mott the Hoople, McGraw-Hill Co & Pinnacle Books
- Fiction
- The Fighting Men, Panjandrum Books
- The Fixers, Ace Books
- Connubial Bliss, Panjandrum Books
- The Pigskin Rabbi, Breakaway Books
- Children's
- The Island Kids, Anglo-Hellenic Publishing Co (Picture Book)
- Young adult
- The Proud Rebel, Ridge Press/Teenage Book Club
- Sea Treasure, Doubleday
- Mystery of the Flooded Mine, Doubleday
- A Dog Called Leka, Viveca Smith Publishing Co
- Non-fiction
- This Way to Paradise--Dancing on the Tables, Lycabettus Press
Plays (premiered)
- Bon Appetit (Los Angeles, 1984, director Bert Rosario)
- Diamonds (Los Angeles, 1985, director Richmond Shepard)
- Hemingway--On the Edge (Los Angeles, 1993, director Lonny Chapman)
- In My Father's House (Los Angeles, 2000, director Jerome Guardino)
- Junk Food (Los Angeles, 1981, director Rick Edelstein)
- MM at 58 (Los Angeles, 1989, director Gary Guidinger)
- The Bleachers
- The Deepest Hunger (Los Angeles, 1984, director Lonny Chapman)
- The Electronic Lincoln (Los Angeles, 1992, director Susan Deitz)
- Their Finest Hour--Churchill and Murrow (Woodstock, director Nicola Sheara)
- The Kendo Master (Los Angeles, 1981, director Sab Shimono)
- The Last Laugh (Los Angeles, 1999, director John Lant)
- The Love Boutique (Los Angeles, 1989, director Walter Olkiewicz)
- The Penis Monologues (Los Angeles, 2002, director Louis Fantasia)
- The Yard
- Man in the Sun
- Porkchops
- The Call (Los Angeles, 2006, director Gregory Crafts)
- Reap the Whirlwind (Los Angeles, 2000, director Doug Lowry)
- Walt-Sweet Bird of Freedom (Los Angeles, 1984, director Lonny Chapman)
- Actual production
- Central Avenue--The Musical (Los Angeles, 2007, director Louis Fantasia)
Television
- Boys Will Be Boys, Fox TV
- Secrets of Midland Heights, CBS-TV
- Shannon, CBS-TV
- Too Close For Comfort, ABC-TV