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Michener's typewriter at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania The creative team and star of South Pacific. Left to right: Joshua Logan , Richard Rodgers , Oscar Hammerstein II , Mary Martin , and Michener in 1949
James Michener, American novelist and short-story writer who, perhaps more than any other single author, made foreign environments accessible to Americans through fiction. Best known for his novels, he wrote epic and detailed works classified as fictional documentaries.
James Albert Michener or simply James A. Michener, as he is popularly known as, is a well known novelist, philanthropist and story writer from Pennsylvania, United States. James was born on February 3, 1907 in New York, United States.
Oct 16, 1997 · James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific , which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
James A. Michener has 448 books on Goodreads with 676969 ratings. James A. Michener’s most popular book is Hawaii.
May 17, 2018 · James Michener (1907-1997) is best known for hismany epic historical novels, which have sold an estimated 75 million copies worldwide. He was also anoted philanthropist, having contributed more than$100 million to universities, libraries, museums, and other charitable causes.
Oct 16, 1997 · Published in just about every country and language in the world, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist James A. Michener was a storytelling phenomenon, a world traveler at home on virtually every continent.
