During one summer vacation Michener traveled with a Chautauqua tent show and became imbued with a love of the drama, reflected in his fiction, which has often been adapted for the stage and screen.
Michener graduated (summa cum laude) in 1929 with a degree in English and history as well as a Phi Beta Kappa key. He began teaching at the nearby Hill School. A traveling scholarship enabled him to make his first trip abroad and he enrolled at St. Andrew's University in Scotland, but he also studied art in London and Siena, Italy, worked on a Mediterranean cargo vessel, and collected folk tales in the Hebrides islands. Returning to the United States during the Depression years, he taught from 1933 to 1936 at George School near Doylestown and in 1937 earned a master's degree at the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, where he was an associate professor from 1936 through 1939. He served his writing apprenticeship as the author of some fifteen scholarly articles on the teaching of social studies, published between 1936 and 1942. During 1940-1941 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, and in 1941 he accepted a post on the editorial staff of the Macmillan Company in New York.
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