Paul Theroux (born 1941) was an expatriate American writer of numerous works of fiction and of the chronicles of his own travels by train throughout the world. He was a keen observer of the relationships between people and their environments. Paul Therou...

Paul Theroux's novels, short stories, essays, and travel books, in which he often explores the expatriate experience and the postcolonial world of developing countries, have established his reputation as a prodigious and cosmopolitan man of letters. Crit...

Paul Theroux has achieved international fame and literary accolades for his travel writings, novels, short stories, poetry, and critical essays. Just as his literary interests shape his travel writings, so do his global travel experiences inform his fict...

UNTIL SALMAN RUSHDIE came along, Paul Theroux was the- literary establisbment's most prosperous Third World junkie. Although he had published a number of novels, it was the accounts of his masochistic train rides through Asia and South America that brought him a wide...

A TRUNK CALL F A secret history PATHFINDING 3: HEREFORDSHIRE AND THE WYE VALLEY ON ITS placid surface, Herefordshire is both England's most secret, and yet most typical county. Tucked between the Malvern Hills and the Welsh mountains, it oozes Englishness:...

E. Howard Hunt may hold a controversial niche in American history, but mourners at his funeral Monday expressed only admiration for the man who helped organize the Watergate break-in."He was a great American. The country needs more like him. Too bad we don't have anyone...

He served as a Navy and CIA officer, and helped orchestrate a coup in Guatemala and the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, but E. Howard Hunt is best known as something he always said he wasn't: a Watergate burglar.Hunt, who often said he preferred the...