Arnold Philip Hano (March 2, 1922 – October 24, 2021) was an American editor, novelist, biographer and journalist, best known for his non-fiction work ''A Day in the Bleachers'', a critically acclaimed eyewitness account of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, centered on its pivotal play,

Willie Mays Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of ...

' famous catch and throw.Appel, Marty
"A Day in the Bleachers—The Willie Mays Catch"
''Sports Collectors Digest''. Retrieved August 24, 2015. "'A Day in the Bleachers' was an immediate hit – with reviewers. It received 65 reviews, 64 of them glowing, with a full page in the ''New York Herald-Tribune'', and an important review in ''The New York Times'' by James ('Studs Lonegan') Farrell. But it didn't score with the public – barely 3500 sold in a year, and it went out of print a few years later, only to reemerge in 1982 as a reissue by DeCapo Press, and again, by DeCapo, a year ago in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the game.' .."Hano was a long-time contributor to SPORT Magazine, writing over 100 features for editors Ed Fitzgerald and Al Silverman, while also developing biographies of Mays, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Muhammad Ali. ..He also wrote western novels and 'novelizations' of motion pictures (stories based on screenplays), like 'Marriage Italian Style,' a Sophia Loren film. He wrote some early novels for Lion under 'Matthew Gant,' because, 'I didn't want to be publishing myself while I was editor-in-chief!'."Farrell, James T. "Pastime Denizen: A Day in the Bleachers". ''The New York Times''. August 7, 1955. Accessed via ProQuest, 2015-08-24. "On September 29, 1954, some 52,751 people jammed into the Polo Grounds to see the first game of that series. One of them was a highly articulate Giant fan named Arnold Hano. ..He has written a pleasing and attractive book, recreating an almost legendary day in the history of baseball. He describes the practice before the game, gives vignettes of other bleacher denizens, and writes a dramatic account of the game itself—and, though we know its outcome, our interest is held here as it might be in a novel."Kupferberg, Herbert
"Books: Diamond Show"
''Parade''. April 15, 1990. Retrieved 2015-08-24. "There's lots of good reading too, the writers including Ernest Hemingway, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, John Updike and Arnold Hano—the author of a particularly vivid description of Willie Mays' most famous catch."Vecsey, George

''The New York Times''. September 29, 2004. Retrieved August 24, 2015. Barra, Allen (2013)
''Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age''
New York: Random House. p. 212. . Retrieved August 27, 2015. See also: * Kettmann, Steve
"Shocked, Shocked!"
''Salon''. December 3, 2004. Retrieved 2015-08-28. "As a classic baseball book like "A Day in the Bleachers" by Arnold Hano—or anything by Roger Angell—reminds us, the first tool for understanding baseball is the eyes. Trust your eyes, as Hano did at the Polo Grounds, and you can see that steroids were a huge part of baseball in the storied summer of 1998, when a pumped-up Sammy Sosa battled pumped-up Mark McGwire for Roger Maris' single-season home-run record." * Miller, Stuart (2006)
''The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports''
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 69. ISBN . Retrieved August 28, 2015"Hilda Award recipients"
Baseball Reliquary. Retrieved August 29, 2015. The author of several sports biographies, and frequent contributor to such publications as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'',Dreier, Peter
"The Blog: 'Hano! A Century in the Bleachers' Profiles Sportswriting Superstar in New Documentary"
''The Huffington Post''. July 19, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015. Hano was, in 1963, both a Hillman Prize winner"Sociologist Scores New Negro Leaders"
''The New York Times''. April 22, 1964. Retrieved August 24, 2015. and NSSA's Magazine Sportswriter of the Year.Associated Press
"McNamee, Runyon to Get Hall Spots"
''The Reading Eagle''. April 7, 1964. Retrieved August 24, 2015. He was also

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's 2012 Hilda Award recipient and a 2016 inductee into its Shrine of the Eternals."Shrine of the Eternals – Inductees"
. Baseball Reliquary. Retrieved July 30, 2019.

Early life and education

Hano was born in

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on March 2, 1922. His father, Alfred Barnard Hano, worked as a lawyer and was employed as a salesman during the

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; his mother, Clara (Millhauser), was a housewife."Clara Hano (Millhauser)"
Geni. Retrieved August 24, 2015."United States Census, 1930: Person Details for Arnold Hano"
Family Search. Retrieved August 24, 2015."United States Census, 1940: Person Details for Arnold Hano"
Family Search. Retrieved August 24, 2015. Hano spent his pre-school years in northern

's Washington Heights, in close proximity to both the

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and

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.Waddles, Han
"Bronx Banter Interview: Arnold Hano"
Alex Belth Bronx Banter. September 28, 2009. Retrieved August 24, 2015. A Yankee fan at four, Hano responded to New York's loss in the

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by switching his allegiance from the Yankees to the Giants, where it remained lifelong.About the Author: Arnold Hano
Arion Press. Retrieved August 31, 2015. That same year, his family moved from Manhattan to

the Bronx The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...

for more than a decade comprising his formative years. By age three, Hano had learned to read under the tutelage of his six-and-a-half-year-old brother, Alfred Jr.Hano, Arnold
"Life With Alfie"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. November 1990. Retrieved September 2, 2015. By the time he was eight, Hano was writing news stories for his brother's mimeographed weekly, ''The Montgomery Avenue News'', albeit stories paraphrased from published newspaper articles. Before long, he grew tired of recycling other people's ideas; once again, his brother encouraged him:

So I invented a cop who would always fall to his knees when he shot the bad guy and I called it Sitting Bull. It was my first pun. ..I did about six or seven of these episodic things. I was eight years old, writing the equivalent of a novel for a street newspaper that we sold for a nickel a copy, door-to-door.

Hano attended

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, graduating in 1937, and started that fall at

Long Island University Long Island University (LIU) is a private university in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, United States. The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses, LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post on Long I ...

's Brooklyn campus. However, his initial plan to pursue a career in medicine was diverted:

One day I wandered into the newspaper office, and they were laughing. I didn't know you were allowed to have fun. They were enjoying themselves, so I changed from a science major to an English journalism major in my sophomore year. I became the sports editor of the college weekly in my junior year, and senior year I was editor-in-chief with another guy.

LIU's basketball team won the recently established National Invitational Tournament (NIT) in two of those three years. Hano wrote later "I didn't know how or what – would it be a newspaper, or freelance, or a novelist, but I knew I'd write." Hano went on to earn his Bachelor's degree in 1941."195 Are Graduated at L.I.U. Ceremony". ''The New York Times''. June 10, 1941. p. 26. Accessed via ProQuest August 24, 2015. "Thirteen students received their degrees cum laude and two magna cum laude. ..The following students were listed as winners of departmental honors: Seymour Bier, accounting; Anthony Barbaccia, Martin Bloom and Murray Silberberg, biology; Noel L. Conrade and Jack B. Hosid, chemistry; Andrew G. Crowley and Henry G. Neuschaefer, economics; John E. Gurka, Arnold Hano, Josephine Pincus and Ethel J. Shohet, English; Helen O. Pause, mathematics; Selma Rubin, retail distribution; Mildred Eichel, secretarial studies."

Career

That summer, Hano was employed as a

copy boy A copy boy is a typically young and junior worker on a newspaper. The job involves taking typed stories from one section of a newspaper to another. According to Bruce Guthrie, the former editor-in-chief of the ''Herald Sun'' who began work there ...

by the ''

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'': Accompanying the News photographer to sporting events, he provided captions for those shots chosen to be published. Hano wrote almost 70 years later:

I'm the luckiest fan in the history of the world. When I was a copy boy at the ''Daily News'', I was sitting in the Ebbetts Field press box when that ball got away from Mickey Owen.

After the US entered

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, Hano followed his brother into the armed forces in 1942, Alfred to the

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and Arnold to the Army. He served in an artillery battalion of the Seventh Infantry Division, participating in the

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and later landing in the first wave on Kwajalein Atoll. Informed that his brother was

missing in action Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty (person), casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoner of war, prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire. They may have been ...

on a mission over Germany, Hano successfully applied to be commissioned as an infantry officer at

Fort Benning Fort Benning (named Fort Moore from 2023–2025) is a United States Army post in the Columbus, Georgia area. Located on Georgia's border with Alabama, Fort Benning supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve compone ...

, allowing him to be deployed to the

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where he hoped to find his brother. Before this plan could be realized, the war ended and Alfred's remains were recovered."All Together Now: Parade Honorees: The 2013 Laguna Beach Parade Honored Citizens of the Year, Arnold and Bonnie Hano"
Laguna Beach Patriot's Day Parade. Retrieved August 24, 2015. (To find this article, scroll approximately one third of the way down.) After his discharge, Hano returned to New York to a career in book publishing, first as managing editor with Bantam (1947–49), then as editor-in-chief with Lion Books (1949–54), working with novelists C. M. Kornbluth, David Goodis,

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and particularly Jim Thompson,Rich, Mark (2010)
''C.M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary''
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 203. . Retrieved August 24, 2015. whose productivity thrived under Hano's guidance. In 1951, Hano debuted as an author with the baseball-themed

young adult In medicine and the social sciences, a young adult is generally a person in the years following adolescence, sometimes with some overlap. Definitions and opinions on what qualifies as a young adult vary, with works such as Erik Erikson's stages ...

novel, ''The Big Out'', described by ''The New York Times'' reviewer Ralph Adams Brown as "one of the most thrilling sports novels this reviewer has ever read." In 1954, Hano left Lion Books after a company-wide 10% pay cut imposed by Martin Goodman. At Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, Hano's handwritten record of the event would form the basis for 1955's ''A Day in the Bleachers''. Despite poor marketing and disappointing sales, the book was critically acclaimed. and eventually regarded as a classic of sports literature, with new editions published in 1982, 2004, and 2006.Epting, Chris
"Back to the Bleachers"
''Los Angeles Times''. August 27, 2006. Retrieved 2015-08-24. The book's signature passage—its description of Willie Mays' famous catch—is frequently cited, quoted, or reprinted in full. Buoyed by the book's reception, Hano began to establish himself as a freelance writer, his work appearing in publications such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

'', the ''

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'', ''

'', '' Seventeen'', ''

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'',"SI in the News: Jon Leonoudakis '76 has new film on unsung writer Arnold Hano"
St. Ignatius College Preparatory. August 3, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015. ''

Boys' Life ''Scout Life'' (formerly ''Boys' Life'') is the monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Its target readers are children between the ages of 6 and 18. The magazine‘s headquarters are in Irving, Texas. ''Scout Life'' is published ...

'', '' Argosy'', ''

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'', and '' True's Baseball Yearbook''. He also authored several sports biographies in the 1960s and '70s, including those of Mays,

Sandy Koufax Sanford Koufax (; né Braun; born December 30, 1935), nicknamed "the Left Arm of God", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 195 ...

Roberto Clemente Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (; August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder. On December ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( ; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. , April 16, 1947) is an American former basketball player. He played professionally for 20 seasons for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Associatio ...

and

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. Hano was a frequent contributor to Lion Books' (later

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') annual paperback series, ''Baseball Stars of 19__'', providing forty of its chapter-long player profiles between 1958 and 1975, some of which were collected in ''Greatest Giants of Them All'' in 1967. In addition, he wrote film novelizations of ''

Marriage Italian Style ''Marriage Italian Style'' ( ) is a 1964 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film was adapted by Leonardo Benvenuti, Renato Castellani, Piero De Bernardi, and Tonino G ...

'' (1966), '' Bandolero!'' (1969) and ''Running Wild'' (1973), published by

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. On April 7, 1964, Hano was named 1963's Magazine Sportswriter of the Year by the

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. He also received the 1963 Sidney Hillman Memorial Award for magazine journalism for "Burned Out Americans", a

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study of conditions facing migratory farm workers in California's Central Valley. Hano taught writing at the

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, and the

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. and a contributing editor at ''

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'' (1989–92).Hano, Arnold
"In Retrospect: ''Ya Voy'' Already"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. March 1992. p. 149. Retrieved August 24, 2015. In 2012, Hano became the 12th recipient of

's annual Hilda Award, established in 2001 "to recognize distinguished service to the game by a fan." Four years later, with his induction into the Shrine of the Eternals, Hano became the first person to be honored twice by the Baseball Reliquary. In 2015, ''

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'' announced the release of ''Hano! A Century in the Bleachers,'' a documentary of Arnold Hano's life and work, produced and directed by Jon Leonoudakis. Among its interviewees are Hano and fellow sportswriters Ron Rapoport, Ray Robinson, John Schulian, Al Silverman and

George Vecsey George Spencer Vecsey ( ;

, plus artist

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, and former Major League players (and subjects of Hano's articles)

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and

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Personal life

Hano had two children (Stephen A. and Susan C. Hano) by his first marriage, and a daughter, Laurel, by his second, the former Bonnie Abraham. From September 1955, the Hanos resided in Laguna Beach, besides a two-year Peace Corps stint in

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in 1991. Hano was instrumental in writing and promoting a 1971 voter initiative establishing a 36-foot height limit on new buildings; with close to 62 percent of the city's registered voters participating, the measure was approved by a better than 3-to-1 margin.Maxwell, Evan
"Laguna Beach Vote Bans Tall Buildings; Large Election Turnout Approves 36-Foot Limit"
''Los Angeles Times''. August 4, 1971. Retrieved February 10, 2020. In 2013, Hano and his wife were honored as Laguna Beach "Citizens of the Year" in the city's annual Patriot's Day Parade. Hano died on October 24, 2021, at his home in

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. He was 99 years old.

Notes

References

''. July 1965. pp. 22–23. * Whittaker, James (with Hano)
"Fit to Climb a Mountain"
''Boys' Life''. March 1966. pp. 34–35, 38–39. * "Roberto Clemente: Baseball's Brightest Superstar". ''Boys' Life''. March 1968. pp
24–25
an
54

"Scouting in Tahiti"
''Boys' Life''. February 1969. pp. 34–37.
"Model–A Explorers of Orinda"
''Boys' Life''. October 1969. pp. 32–33. * "Who's No. 1? C-O-M-P-T-O-N!". ''Boys' Life''. February 1970. pp
26–27
an
57–58

"Madrid: The City Simpatico"
''Boys' Life''. January 1970. pp. 34, 75–76.
"That's Our Good Boy Scout Talking"
''Scouting''. February 1971. pp. 33–35.
"Why is Archie Bunker So Lovable"
''The Chicago Tribune''. Sunday, March 12, 1972. Section 1A, pp. 1 and 6.
"By the Light of the Midnight Sun"
''Boys' Life''. February 1973. pp. 32–33, 70–73.
"Bill McChesney: The Little Machine"
''Boys' Life''. October 1976. pp. 26–29.
"Greg Louganis: Diving Sensation at 16"
''Boys' Life''. August 1977. pp. 28–31.
"The Magical World of Greg Wilson"
''Boys' Life''. October 1978. pp. 20–23.
"Her First Name is Chief"
''Scouting''. Volume 74, Number 1, January–February 1986. pp. 21–24. * Cosby, Bill (with Hano)
"High School Was a Load of Laughs"
''Boys' Life''. December 1986. pp. 42–44.
"Coasting: Exercising Restraint"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. October 1989. pp. 158–160.
"In Retrospect: Serving Time in the Jury Box"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. October 1990. pp. 192–195.
"In Retrospect: Life with Alfie"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. November 1990. pp. 232–234.
"In Retrospect: Over 26,000 Served"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. December 1990. pp. 325–327.
"A Love Affair With the Press"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. February 1991. pp. 152–154.
"In Retrospect: Jim Thompson Stories Don't Have Happy Endings"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. March 1991. pp. 165–167.
"In Retrospect: Three Score and Nine"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. April 1991. pp. 150–151.
"In Retrospect: Views From Abroad"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. May 1991. pp. 165–167.
"OC Forum: O.C. Can You Say?"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. July 1991. p. 8.
"In Retrospect: Loose Ends"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. August 1991. pp. 142–143.
"In Retrospect: Live From Costa Rica"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. September 1991. pp. 149–151.
"In Retrospect: Mi Familia"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. November 1991. p. 157–158.
"In Retrospect: ''Ya Voy'' Already"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. March 1992. pp. 144–145, 147, 149.
"In Retrospect: Juan Valdez Would Have Starved to Death"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. May 1992. pp. 120–123 and 125.
"In Retrospect: Much Ado About Nothing"
''Orange Coast Magazine''. June 1992. pp. 152, 154–155.
"The View From the Stands"
''Los Angeles Times''. April 2, 2006. * Hano, Bonnie; Hano, Arnold

. Wednesday, May 10, 2010.

Written about Hano

* McLellan, Dennis

''Los Angeles Times''. June 21, 1991. * Vecsey, George

''The New York Times''. September 29, 2004. * Epting, Chris. "Back to the Bleachers," Pts
1
an
2
''Los Angeles Times''. August 27, 2006. * Waddles, Hank
"Bronx Banter Interview: Arnold Hano, Part I"
Alex Belth's Bronx Banter. September 25, 2009. * Waddles, Hank
"Bronx Banter Interview: Arnold Hano, Part II"
* Nolan, Michelle (2010)
"Arnold Hano's Innovative 'The Big Out'"
''Ball Tales: A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s.'' . pp. 50–53. . * Henrikson, Maggi
"Arnold Hano and his infectious zest for life"
Laguna Life and People. February 3, 2015. * Alderton, Bryce
"Man who covered the greats now in the spotlight"
''Laguna Beach Coast Pilot''. September 17, 2015.

Books

Non-fiction
''A Day in the Bleachers''
by Arnold Hano (

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, 1955, 2004). . Fiction (all paperback except as indicated) * ''The Big Out'', sports novel by Arnold Hano (

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hardcover, 1951) * ''Valley of Angry Men'', western novel as by Matthew Gant (

Gold Medal Books Gold Medal Books, launched by Fawcett Publications in 1950, was an American book publisher known for introducing paperback originals, a publishing innovation at the time. Fawcett was also an independent newsstand distributor, and in 1949 the c ...

, 1953) * ''The Flesh Painter'', historical novel about artist

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as by Ad Gordon ( Lion Library Books, 1953) * ''Slade'', western novel as by Ad Gordon ( Lion Library Books, 1956) * ''So I'm a Heel'', noir thriller as by Mike Heller (

, 1957) * ''The Manhunter'', western novel as by Matthew Gant (

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, 1957) * ''Flint'', western novel as by Gil Dodge (

, 1957) * ''The Last Notch'', western novel as by Matthew Gant (

, 1958); reissued as by Arnold Hano (

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, 2017) * ''The Raven and the Sword'', historical novel about politician

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as by Matthew Gant (

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hardcover, 1960;

paperback reprint, 1961) * ''Queen Street'', non-genre novel as by Matthew Gant ( Regency Books, 1963) * ''The Executive'', non-genre novel by Arnold Hano (

, 1964) * ''

'' by Arnold Hano, inferred novelization of the uncredited screenplay by

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and

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(

, 1965) * '' Bandolero!'' by Arnold Hano, novelization of the Western movie screenplay by

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, from a story by Stanley Hough (

, 1967) * '' ''Running Wild'''' by Arnold Hano, novelization of the screenplay by

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and

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from a story by McCahon (

, 1973) * ''3 Steps to Hell'' by Arnold Hano, omnibus edition reprint of three novels: ''So I'm a Heel'', ''Flint'', and ''The Big Out'' (

, 2012)

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