As Harrison Salisbury wrote in the Chicago Tribune, "James Michener is as much an American institution as the Fourth of July or apple pie." Michener wrote short stories, essays, poems, and art histories, but he was best known as the author of lengthy nov...

James Michener has published nearly a dozen volumes of fiction, but such is his versatility that he has published more than an equal number of volumes of nonfiction, and more than one hundred articles in periodicals. He does, however, think of himself pr...

James Michener (1907-1997) is best known for his many epic historical novels, which have sold an estimated 75 million copies worldwide. He was also a noted philanthropist, having contributed more than $100 million to universities, libraries, museums, and...

ALBÃNIZ Iberia (complete) & * Rosa Torres-Pardo (pn) * GLOSSA 98005 (2 CDs: 125:29) Live: Camprodón 8/13/2004 & Iberia: Evocación; El puerto; Almería; El Albaicin-recorded on the composer's piano These unusually slow performances were recorded in August 2004 at Camprodón, the Spanish...

Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. By Jean Dangler. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 218. $27.00.) In some respects, historians should approach this book with an open eye. One is not venturing into the familiar world...

Things people left on planes and at airports _ more than 20,000 of them, including a wedding dress and a pair of rudimentary stilts _ were auctioned off Tuesday in a big clear out of Madrid airport's lost-and-found department.The sale was organized by national flagship...