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James Michener | | Birth Date: |
March 7, 1907 | | Death Date: |
October 16, 1997 | | Place of Birth: |
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Austin, Texas, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
summary from source:
 Biography of James A. Michener
3878 words, approx. 12.9 pages
 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... summary from source:
 Biography of James A(lbert) Michener
2899 words, approx. 9.7 pages
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... summary from source:
 Biography of James Michener
1770 words, approx. 5.9 pages
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...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Tales of the South Pacific Information
686 words, approx. 2 pages
 <i>Tales of the South Pacific</i> is a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of sequentially-related short stories about World War II, written by James A. Michener in 1946. The stories were based on observations and anecdotes he acquired while stationed as...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Walter Havighurst
1,182 words, approx. 4 pages
Tales of the South Pacific reads like a novel, with its strong unity of mood and background and with its reappearing characters, notably Bus Adams and Tony Fry. It is a wide-ranging book—ranging over the whole strange and beautiful world of the South Pacific and over a gallery of characters that include pompous naval commanders and tattooed Seabees, aloof French planters and raffish Tonkinese. It ranges also in emotion, from tedium to the fury of battle on coral beaches, from broad comedy to loneline... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Herbert Mitgang
942 words, approx. 3 pages
James A. Michener won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his first novel, Tales of the South Pacific. It can be predicted that he will not receive a second Pulitzer for his new novel and twenty-third book, The Covenant…. It can also be predicted that … the novel will soar to the top of the best-seller lists in this country and be read and admired all over the world. Michener's reputation among critics has declined—even as his popularity has soared—since Tales of the South Paci... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Orville Prescott
647 words, approx. 2 pages
James A. Michener's postwar literary output now includes four books, of which Tales of the South Pacific, the first, is immeasurably the best. (p. 152) [The loosely linked short stories] were amazingly good, fresh, simple and expert in their presentation, humorous, engrossing and even moving. They all were distinguished by an unusual combination of thoughtful insight appealing to mature minds and old-fashioned storytelling, which made the most of exotic local color. Mr. Michener was adroit in his man...
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