Samuel Hawley taught English in East Asia for many years. His books include Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixites, recently optioned by Company Pictures for development into a TV series; The Imjin War, the most comprehensive account in English of Japan’s 16th-century invasion of Korea and at.... more
Samuel Hawley taught English in East Asia for many years. His books include Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixites, recently optioned by Company Pictures for development into a TV series; The Imjin War, the most comprehensive account in English of Japan’s 16th-century invasion of Korea and attempted conquest of China (Chinese translation forthcoming); I Just Ran, the biography of Olympic sprinting legend Percy Williams; the thriller Homeowner With a Gun and the novel Bad Elephant Far Stream. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
Samuel Hawley's Projects
Bad Elephant Far Stream
Bad Elephant Far Stream is an animal story for adults, a novel about the odyssey of a ci... more
Homeowner With a Gun
It’s the middle of the night. You’re awakened by a noise. Someone is in your house. What do you do? ... more
SPEED DUEL: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixties
The true story of the epic quest in the 1960s for the world land speed record. With little more than... more
THE FIGHT THAT STARTED THE MOVIES: The World Heavyweight Championship, the Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Film
On March 17, 1897, in an open-air arena in Carson City, Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons fo... more
The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China (2nd edition)
In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu... more
