William Stevenson (Canadian writer) explained

William Henry Stevenson
Birth Date:	1 June 1924
Death Place:	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality:	Canadian
Occupation:	author

William Henry Stevenson (1 June 192426 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist.^[1]

His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven.^[2] Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book, Intrepid's Last Case. He published his autobiography in 2012.

In 1976 Stevenson released the book, 90 Minutes at Entebbe.^[3] It was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described.^{[4] [5]}

Bibliography

• The Yellow Wind, 1959, Houghton Mifflin Co.,, . Reportage on the People's Republic of China between 1954-1957.
• The Bushbabies, 1965, Houghton Mifflin Co.,, . Children's story inspired by his own family's adventures in Africa.
• The Bormann Brotherhood, 1973 (non-fiction)
• A Man Called Intrepid, 1976, Harcourt, . (non-fiction)
• The Ghosts of Africa, 1980, Harcourt, . Historical fiction set in World War I colonial German East Africa.
• Intrepid's Last Case, 1983, Michael Joseph Ltd, . (non-fiction)
• Eclipse, 1986 (fiction)
• Booby Trap, 1987 (fiction)
• Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam, 1990, Dutton, . Co-written with his wife Monika Jensen-Stevenson. (non-fiction)
• 90 Minutes at Entebbe, Bantam, (non-fiction)
• Strike Zion 1967 (non-fiction)
• Zanek!; A Chronicle of the Israeli Force (non-fiction)
• The Revolutionary King: : the true-life sequel to the King and I, 2001, Constable and Robinson, .
• Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II, 2006, Arcade Publishing, . (biography)
• Past to Present: A Reporter's Story of War, Spies, People, and Politics, Lyons Press, 2012.^[6]

External links

• Publisher's 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: William Stevenson, author of A Man Called Intrepid, dies . CBC News . 2013-11-27 . 2013-12-06.
2. Web site: A Man Called Intrepid (1979) - Peter Carter | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related. AllMovie.
3. News: Instant book out on Entebbe raid. The Saturday Citizen. 1976-07-23. 2013-06-09. The book in both English and Hebrew editions is to be on sale within weeks of the July 4 Israeli raid..
4. News: Crisis in Iraq Inspires Spate of Books. New York Times. Roger Cohen. 1990-09-07. 2013-06-09. 2014-05-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20140513062618/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/07/books/crisis-in-iraq-inspires-spate-of-books.html. live. Instant books have enjoyed a considerable vogue since Bantam's success in 1976 with 90 Minutes at Entebbe, a book about the Israeli raid in Uganda. .
5. News: Turning News Into Movies: The Making Of the Deal. Esquire magazine. Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary. 2013-06-09. 90 Minutes at Entebbe, by William Stevenson, was available to readers July 25, just twenty-two days after the raid. .
6. News: Ross. Oakland. William Stevenson: The Star's one-man foreign service. 7 March 2013. Toronto Star. Oct 20, 2012.