Willard M. Manus (September 28, 1930 – January 19, 2023) was an American novelist, playwright, and journalist based in Los Angeles. His best known book is Mott the Hoople (1966), the novel from which the British 1970s hard rock band derived their name.
Willard M. Manus was born in New York on September 28, 1930. He was 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. Additionally he had a dozen other books published, including 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. More than two dozen of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, regionally and in Europe. Manus became a member of Los Angeles Film Critics Association in 1981. He died in Los Angeles County on January 19, 2023, at the age of 92.[1]
Love Under Aegean Skies - Amazon E-Book
Actual Productions: Bon Appetit (Los Angeles, 1984, director Bert Rosario)
"The Life and Loves of Marlene Dietrich:
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