William Hare

I am a freelance writer who began the challenging confrontation with words while in high school in my native Los Angeles, where I was an editor of the prep sports section of the Los Angeles Examiner.

After graduading from college I began my professional writing career as a sports editor of the Inglewood Daily News chain, covering the local sports beat as well as the activities of the Dodgers, Angels, Rams, USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins. It was in this phase of my journalism career that I learned the importance of meeting a regular deadline and making certain my sources were accurate.

After leaving the sports field I secured a law degree and entered a news phase as a freelance writer. My law school education, and particularly that derived as editor of my school's law review, gave me a new appreciation and feel for research. This coupled with my interest in world politics, fashioned from my days as a political science major and later as a world traveler, proved catalysts in driving me toward the writing of 'Struggle for the Holy Land: Arabs, Jews and the Emergence of Israel,' which is available here at Amazon.com. This work encompasses 3,500 years of history in the fascinating Middle East region where civilization began. It is one of the few works on the subject written from an equivalent standpoint about the histories of the Jewish and Arab peoples.

In addition to being an international political historian, I am a film historian as well. I am a current contributor to 'Films of the Golden Age,' for which I have written stories about directors Mervyn LeRoy, Ken Annakin, and Sir Carol Reed as well as a personal interview and article on British cinema star Susannah York. These articles can be found on the Internet at www.classicimages.com.

My new book,'Early Film Noir,' is now available at Amazon.com. It was published by McFarland, the largest publisher of film books. 'Early Film Noir' covers the early years of the genre beginning with 'The Maltese Falcon', extending to classics such as 'Double Indemnity', 'Murder, My Sweet' and 'Out of the Past,' and extends all the way to two great British film noir selections from the fifties, 'The Third Man' and 'Across the Bridge.'

Early in 2004 the sequel to that book, 'L.A. Noir,' will emerge, also from McFarland Publishing. This book covers the great films shot in Los Angeles, beginning with Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep.' The study moves forward to 'Chinatown' and extends to the adaptation of the James Ellroy bestseller, 'L.A. Confidential.'

A new book of mine has just been published. It is on the great director Alfred Hitchcock. It is called 'Hitchcock and the Methods of Suspense.'

I am a regular columnist on the political website PoliticalCortex.com. I am now currently working on a political book about how the mainstream media in America has become so much intertwined with the corporate establishment that democracy has been tremendously eroded and in many respects destroyed.

In November of 2006 I moved from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where I had resided for 10 years, to the exciting and interesting city of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest.