WILLARD MANUS is a Los Angeles-based novelist, playwright and journalist. His best-known novel is MOTT THE HOOPLE, the book from which the British rock band of the 1970s took its name. Other popula...view moreWILLARD MANUS is a Los Angeles-based novelist, playwright and journalist. His best-known novel is MOTT THE HOOPLE, the book from which the British rock band of the 1970s took its name. Other popular books of his include THE PIGSKIN RABBI and THIS WAY TO PARADISE–-DANCING ON THE TABLES, a memoir of the thirty years he spent in the Greek islands. Among his recent theatre credits are FRANK AND AVA (winner of a best-play prize at the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival); JOE AND MARILYN: A LOVE STORY; BIRD LIVES!; PREZ–-THE LESTER YOUNG STORY; and MARLENE. Manus also co-wrote the screenplay of FRANK AND AVA. He reviews plays for TOTAL THEATRE.COM and publishes the online arts magazine, LIVELY-ARTSview less