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William Wister Haines (September 17, 1908 – November 18, 1989) was an American author, screenwriter, and playwright. His most notable work, Command Decision, was published as a novel, play, and screenplay following World War II.
William Wister Haines, a novelist, playwright and screenwriter whose best-known work was the play ''Command Decision,'' died on Saturday, three days after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 81 years old and lived in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
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William Wister Haines was born on 17 September 1908 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. William Wister was a writer, known for Command Decision (1948), One Minute to Zero (1952) and Slim (1937). William Wister died on 18 November 1989 in Laguna Niguel, California, USA.
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- September 17, 1908
- William Wister Haines
- November 18, 1989
In 1934 WILLIAM WISTER HAINES published his first novel, Slim, an Atlantic-Little, Brown book in which he told the eveiting and hazardous story of those who work on the high-tension...
- William Wister Haines
WILLIAM WISTER HAINES, the author and playwright, is a Californian by adoption who has long enjoyed the native wines. At the suggestion of the Editor, he made an extended trip through...
Command Decision is a war novel by William Wister Haines, serialized in 1946–47 in four parts in The Atlantic Monthly. It was published in book form in 1947. It was developed from the unproduced play of the same title in order to provide a market for a Broadway production that followed in 1947, then adapted as a film in 1948.
Nov 21, 1989 · William Wister Haines, who wrote a string of literate adventure novels, among them "Command Decision," which underwent a play-book-film metamorphosis, died of a stroke while on a...
