The World is My Home A Memoir
The best-selling author James Michener started life as a small-town Pennsylvania boy who left his foster-home at the age of 13 to hitch-hike around the country. He was 40 before he decided on writing as a career, prior to which he had been an academic, an editor and a US Navy lieutenant-commander in World War II. His first book, Tales of the South Pacific, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into the award-winning film, South Pacific, and his subsequent novels include Hawaii, Chesapeake, Texas, The Covenant, Alaska and Caribbean.
Biography & AutobiographyLiterary FiguresLiterary CriticismAmericanTravelEssays & Travelogues
RELEASED1992
PUBLISHERMandarin
LENGTH617
LANGUAGEEN
James A. Michener was born in 1907 and raised by a Quaker woman in Pennsylvania. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy and traveled across the Pacific. His TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. He lived with his wife in Austin, Texas. He was director of the Texas Center for Writers at the University of Texas.
The World is My Home A Memoir
The best-selling author James Michener started life as a small-town Pennsylvania boy who left his foster-home at the age of 13 to hitch-hike around the country. He was 40 before he decided on writing as a career, prior to which he had been an academic, an editor and a US Navy lieutenant-commander in World War II. His first book, Tales of the South Pacific, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into the award-winning film, South Pacific, and his subsequent novels include Hawaii, Chesapeake, Texas, The Covenant, Alaska and Caribbean.
Biography & AutobiographyLiterary FiguresLiterary CriticismAmericanTravelEssays & Travelogues
RELEASED1992
PUBLISHERMandarin
LENGTH617
LANGUAGEEN
James A. Michener was born in 1907 and raised by a Quaker woman in Pennsylvania. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy and traveled across the Pacific. His TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. He lived with his wife in Austin, Texas. He was director of the Texas Center for Writers at the University of Texas.
