Willard Manus

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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. While in Lindos he spent a good deal of time free diving and spearfishing, at which he was expert.

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.

Contents

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Television

Boys Will Be Boys, Fox TV
Secrets of Midland Heights, CBS-TV
Shannon, CBS-TV
Too Close For Comfort, ABC-TV

[edit] External links

My Name is Leka

Plays by Willard Manus

Review

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