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James Albert Michener (/ ˈ m ɪ tʃ ə n ər / or / ˈ m ɪ tʃ n ər /; [2] February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history.
Nixon, who died in 1994, had a net worth of $988,522 in 1973, according to a Dec. 9 issue from that year by The San Francisco Examiner. That amounts to about $6.03 million in today’s dollars.
Both Sabusawa and Michener were supporters of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the USSR. They made their home in Vienna a safe haven for refugees created by the conflict. [4] This experience would influence Michener's novel, The Bridge at Andau, 1957. [5] Sabusawa spoke out in support of American-Japanese marriages in the 1950s.
James A. Michener (1907–1997), author; Aubertine Woodward Moore (1841–1929), musician, writer, musical critic, translator, and lecturer; Frances Trego Montgomery (1858 – 1925), American children's book writer; Christopher Morley (1890–1957), novelist, short-story writer, and poet; Wesley Morris (born 1975), film critic and podcast host
Died: Unity Mitford, 33, British socialite and fascist (meningitis caused by the cerebral swelling around a bullet from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1939) May 29 , 1948 (Saturday) [ edit ]
Looking back at 100 years ago in Lenawee County for July 26, 1924.
The book Such Men As These, published in 2010 by David Sears, uses "Michener’s notes to follow the real-life aviators from the day they left home to the truce that ended the war...Sears also follows Michener’s own progress in writing [The Bridges at Toko-ri], which many veterans felt was the best depiction of their experience on the ground and in the sky."
James Earl Jones, acclaimed actor and voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, died Monday at 93 and left behind a substantial net worth. See his fortune.