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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.
Michener hasn't been able to bring it off." [ 2 ] A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker wrote that Michener "has had to assume a number of expert roles, including those of anthropologist, linguist, historian, gastronome, economist, and expert on colonial administration, but he's handled this Hydra-headed assignment modestly and in an easy-going and ...
Jeffrey Allen "Jeff" Michener (died 2016) is the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Immune to the Red Flu, Michener is the sole surviving member of the Cabinet of the United States, which makes him next in the presidential line of succession.
Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of sequentially related short stories by James A. Michener about the Pacific campaign in World War II. The stories are based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy at the Espiritu Santo Naval Base on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands (now known ...
Hawaii by James A. Michener; Advise and Consent by Allen Drury; Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence; The Ugly American by Eugene L. Burdick; Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico; Poor No More by Robert Ruark
The Fires of Spring is the second book and first novel published by American author James A. Michener. [1] Usually known for his multi-generational epics of historical fiction, The Fires of Spring was written as a partially autobiographical bildungsroman in which Michener's proxy, young orphan David Harper, searches for meaning and romance in pre-World War II Pennsylvania.
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Caravans, a novel by James A. Michener, was published in 1963.. The story is set in Afghanistan immediately following World War II. The protagonist, Mark Miller, is stationed in Kabul at the American embassy and is given the assignment of an investigation to find a young woman, Ellen Jasper, also from the United States, who has disappeared after her marriage to an Afghan national thirteen ...