death_place death_date nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
toronto , ontario , canada 26 november 2013 canada 01 june 1924 william stevenson -lrb- canadian writer -rrb-
 william henry stevenson author
william stevenson -lrb- canadian writer -rrb-

william henry stevenson -lrb- 1 june 192426 november 2013 -rrb- was a british-born canadian author and journalist .
his 1976 book `` a man called intrepid '' was about william stephenson -lrb- no relation -rrb- and was a best-seller -lrb- see the stephenson article for more -rrb- .
it was made into a 1979 mini-series starring david niven and stevenson followed it up with a 1983 book titled `` intrepid 's last case '' .
he published his autobiography in 2012 .
stevenson set a record with another 1976 book , `` 90 minutes at entebbe '' .
the book was about operation entebbe , an operation where israeli commandos secretly landed at night at entebbe airport in uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by palestinian militants , while incurring very few casualties .
the remarkable record in that pre-internet age is that stevenson 's `` instant book '' was written , edited , printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described .
