Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0449213358 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-449-21335-3 |
No of pages | 1036 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | fawcett |
Published Date | 12 Sep 1986 |
James A. (Albert) Michener, born around 1907, won the Pulitzer Prize for his first fiction, Tales of the South Pacific.
The bestselling book was adapted into the popular musical and film, South Pacific. Michener's numerous bestselling novels also included The Source, Centennial, Texas, Hawaii, and Chesapeake.
He also successfully wrote non-fiction, including travel stories and a memoir. Michener grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude from Swarthmore College.
Following graduation, he traveled in Europe, and taught English at several private high schools.
Michener returned to school at Colorado State Teachers College (now known as the University of Northern Colorado) to earn a master's degree.
He taught there and at Harvard before working as an editor. Michener served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, traveling throughout the South Pacific Ocean on numerous missions.
His experiences in the Pacific inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Though he tried a career in politics, Michener found greatest success in writing.
During his lifetime, he sold an estimated seventy-five million books worldwide. His novel Hawaii was adapted into a film, and Centennial became a hit twelve-part mini-series.
Michener also wrote screenplays, including Sayonara and The Bridges of Took-Ri. Michener donated much of his earnings, sharing over $100 million with numerous beneficiaries. He died in 1997.
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"[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama, wonderful. “THE BALTIMORE SUN America’s preeminent storyteller, James Michener, introduced an entire generation of readers to a lush, exotic world in the Pacific with this classic novel.
But it is also a novel about people, people of strength and character; the Polynesians; the fragile missionaries; the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos who intermarried into a beautiful race called Hawaiians.
Here is the story of their relationships, toils, and successes, their strong aristocratic kings and queens and struggling farmers, all of it enchanting and very real in this almost mythical place.
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