Willard Manus


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 1970s hard rock band derived their name.
Manus was born in New York. He is 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 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. More than two dozen of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, regionally and in Europe.
Member of Los Angeles Film critics Association since 1981.

Journalism

Love Under Aegean Skies - Amazon E-Book
Actual Productions:
Bon Appetit
"The Life and Loves of Marlene Dietrich:
and other plays.....

Television

Translations