Raymond Hull

Raymond Hull (born February 27, 1919 in Shaftesbury , England , † June 6, 1985 in Vancouver , Canada ) was a British-Canadian writer.

Hull was employed in the public service before immigrating from England to Vancouver, Canada, in 1947. Since 1949 he took eight years of education in various writing courses , which he financed through poorly paid odd jobs. In the late 1950s, he began writing television plays that he sold to the US broadcaster CBS , as well as plays that he brought to various stages.

In addition, he led writing courses and, since the late 1960s, increasingly published non-fiction books, with which he was one of the first authors of advice on helping life. His major works include the co-authored with Laurence J. Peter book The Peter Principle (1970) (dt. The Peter Principle ) draws up the provocative thesis in classical hierarchies each climb up to the rank of where he eventually overwhelmed be. His second bestseller How To Get What You Want (1969) (dt. Everything is within ) should help the reader to advance concrete by clearly defining its objectives, positive auto-suggestion and implementation of small steps his own self-expression.

Hull died in Vancouver in 1985.

Works in German

• together with Laurence J. Peter : The Peter Principle or The Hierarchy of the Incapable , Reinbek near Hamburg 1972, ISBN 3-499-16793-X ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from June 22 to July 5, 1970 )
• Everything is available , Reinbek near Hamburg 1973, ISBN 978-3499613524

Web links

• ABC Book World, biography of Hull