William Stevenson (Canadian writer)

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William Stevenson (b. 1925) is a British-born Canadian author and journalist.

His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller (see the Stephenson article for more). It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven and Stevenson followed it up with a 1983 book Intrepid's Last Case.

[edit] Bibliography

(This list is incomplete.)

• A Man Called Intrepid, 1976, Harcourt, ISBN 0-15-156795-6.
  

• The Bushbabies, 1965, Houghton Mifflin Co., Library of Congress No. 65-2509. Children's story inspired by his own family's adventures in Africa..

• The Ghosts of Africa, 1980, Harcourt, ISBN-13: 9780151353385 ISBN: 0151353387. Historical fiction set in WW1 colonial German East Africa.

• Intrepid's Last Case, 1983, Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN 0-7181-2441-3.

• Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam, 1990, Dutton, ISBN 0-525-24934-6. Co-written with his wife Monika Jensen-Stevenson.

• The Revolutionary King: : the true-life sequel to the King and I, 2001, Constable and Robinson, ISBN 1-84119-451-4.

• Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II, 2006, Arcade Publishing, ISBN 978-1559707633.

[edit] References

• Publishers 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)

• A Man Called Intrepid at the Internet Movie Database