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About Willard Manus
- Willard Manus (born September 28, 1930) is a Los Angeles-based novelist, playwright, and journalist.
- His best known book is Mott the Hoople (1966), 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.
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