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James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which were sweeping family sagas, covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating historical facts into the stories. Michener was known for the meticulous research behind his work.
Michener's major books include Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. His nonfiction works include the 1968 Iberia about his travels in Spain and Portugal, his 1992 memoir The World Is My Home, and Sports in America. Return to Paradise combines fictional short stories with Michener's factual descriptions of the Pacific areas where they take place.
Michener wrote that he did not know who his biological parents were or exactly when or where he was born. He claimed he was raised a Quaker by an adoptive mother, Mabel Michener, in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Michener graduated from Doylestown High School in 1925. He attended Swarthmore College, where he played basketball, and joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He graduated with highest honors. He attended Colorado State Teachers College (now named the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado), and earned his master's degree.
After graduating Phi Beta CENZURAT and summa cum laude in 1929 from Swarthmore College in English and psychology, he traveled and studied in Europe for two years. Michener then took a job as a high school English teacher at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. From 1933 to 1936 he taught English at George School, in Newtown, Pennsylvania, then attended Colorado State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado), earned his master's degree, and taught there for several years. The library at the University of Northern Colorado is named for him. In 1935, Michener married Patti Koon. He went to Harvard for a one-year teaching stint from 1939 to 1940 and left teaching to join Macmillan Publishers as their social studies education editor.
Michener was called to active duty during World War II in the United States Navy. He traveled throughout the South Pacific Ocean on various missions that were assigned to him because his base commanders thought he was the son of Admiral Marc Mitscher. His travels became the setting for his breakout work Tales of the South Pacific.
In 1960, Michener was chairman of the Bucks County committee to elect John F. Kennedy. In 1962, he unsuccessfully ran as a Democratic candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, a decision he later considered a misstep. "My mistake was to run in 1962 as a Democratic candidate for Congress. [My wife] kept saying, 'Don't do it, don't do it.' I lost and went back to writing books."
In 1968, Michener served as the campaign manager for twice-elected US senator Joseph S. Clark's third term run. Michener was later Secretary for the 1967–68 Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention.
Michener's writing career began during World War II, when as a lieutenant in the Navy, he was assigned to the South Pacific Ocean as a naval historian;. He later turned his notes and impressions into Tales of the South Pacific, his first book, published in 1947, when he was 40. It became the basis for the Broadway and film musical South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Tales of the South Pacific won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1948.
Michener tried his hand at television writing as well, but found no success in that medium. Among other things, American television producer Bob Mann wanted James Michener to co-create a weekly anthology series from Tales of the South Pacific, with Michener as narrator. Rodgers and Hammerstein, however, owned all dramatic rights to the novel and did not give up ownership. Michener did lend his name to a different television series, Adventures in Paradise, in 1959. In the late 1950s, Michener began working as a roving editor for Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. He gave up that work in 1970.
Michener was a popular writer during his lifetime; his novels sold an estimated 75 million copies worldwide. His novel Hawaii (published in 1959) was based on extensive research. Nearly all of his subsequent novels were based on detailed historical, cultural, and even geological research. Centennial, which documented several generations of families in the West, was made into a popular twelve-part television miniseries of the same name and aired on NBC from October 1978 through February 1979.
In 1996, State House Press published James A. Michener: A Bibliography, compiled by David A. Groseclose. Its more than 2,500 entries from 1923 to 1995 include magazine articles, forewords, and other works.
Michener's prodigious output made for lengthy novels, several of which run more than 1,000 pages. The author states in My Lost Mexico that at times he would spend 12 to 15 hours per day at his typewriter for weeks on end, and that he used so much paper his filing system had trouble keeping up.
Michener was married three times. In 1935, he married Patti Koon. In 1948, he married his second wife, Vange Nord. Michener met his third wife, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, at a luncheon in Chicago; they married in 1955 (the same year he and Nord divorced).
Michener's novel Sayonara is quasi-autobiographical.
Michener gave away a great deal of the money he earned. Over the years, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa Michener played a major role in directing her husband's donations, totaling more than US$100 million. Among the beneficiaries were the University of Texas, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and Swarthmore College.
In 1989, Michener donated the royalty earnings from the Canadian edition of his novel Journey (published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart) to create the Journey Prize, an annual Canadian literary prize worth $10,000 that is awarded for the year's best short story published by an emerging Canadian writer.
In his final years, Michener lived in Austin, Texas, and, aside from being a prominent celebrity fan of the Texas Longhorns women's basketball team, he founded an MFA program now named the Michener Center for Writers.
In October 1997, Michener ended the daily dialysis treatment that had kept him alive for four years. He died on October 16 of kidney failure at the age of 90.
Michener was cremated and the ashes placed next to those of his wife in the Austin Memorial Park. He is honored by a headstone at the Texas State Cemetery. Michener left most of his estate and the copyrights of his books to Swarthmore College.
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James A. Michener - Hawaii (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - The Source (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Centennial (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - The Covenant (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Chesapeake (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Texas (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Tales Of The South Pacific (read by James Armstrong)
James A. Michener - Alaska (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Poland (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - The Drifters (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Space (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Caravans (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Caribbean (read by Alexander Adams)
James A. Michener - Mexico (read by Alexander Adams)
James A. Michener - Iberia (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - The Novel (read by Alexander Adams)
James A. Michener - Sayonara And The Bridges At Toko-Ri (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Journey (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - The Fires Of Spring (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Recessional (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Return To Paradise (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - Rascals In Paradise (read by Larry A. McKeever)
James A. Michener - This Noble Land My Vision For America (read by Arthur Addison)
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