6/27/2023 0 Comments James albert michener hawaiiWhen the United States entered World War II Michener decided to enlist in the Navy although as a Quaker he was exempt from actual military service. The book Return to Paradise combines fictional short stories with Michener's factual descriptions of the Pacific areas where they take place. His nonfiction works include his 1968 Iberia about his travels in Spain and Portugal, his 1992 memoir The World Is My Home, and Sports in America. 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. Michener was known for the meticulous research behind his work. He was an American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which are novels of sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in a particular geographic locale and incorporating historical facts into the story as well. He was raised a Quaker by an adoptive mother, Mabel Michener, in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Michener wrote that he did not know who his parents were or exactly when or where he was born. Naval historian, South Pacific discharged with rank of Lieutenant Commander Editor, Essayist, Novelist, Professor, Short Story Writer, TeacherĪwarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Pulitzer Prize
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