Biography
Hank Searls (Henry Hunt Searls) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in San Francisco on 10 August 1922, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy and served as a naval officer before becoming a full-time writer in 1959.
Searls wrote for the television series The Fugitive (1963), contributing the two-part episode 'Never Wave Goodbye'. His novel The Pilgrim Project (1964) was adapted as the 1967 film Countdown. He also created the police procedural series The New Breed (1961–1962) and wrote novelizations of the films Jaws 2 (1978) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987).
Other novels by Searls include The Crowded Sky (1960), which was filmed in the same year, and The Penetrators (1965, as Anthony Gray). He died in Gig Harbor, Washington, on 17 February 2017.
