The World is My Home - Hardcover

Michener, James A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517116057 ISBN 13: 9780517116050

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

In this autobiography, the best-selling novelist James A. Michener introduces us to the people, events and ideas that have shaped his life. He describes the many strands of his experience - his passion for travel, his love of literature, music and painting, and the nature of the writer's life.

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From the Inside Flap:

ER was "a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, energetic, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart."* Now, one of America's most beloved novelists gives us the story of his own remarkable life . . . .
(*The New York Times Book Review)
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About the Author:

Universally revered novelist James A. Michener was forty before he decided on writing as a career. Prior to that, he had been an outstanding academic, an editor, and a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His first book, Tales of the South Pacific, won a Pulitzer Prize and became the basis of the award-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. In the course of the next forty years Mr. Michener wrote such monumental bestsellers as Sayonara, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Hawaii, The Source, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Alaska, Caribbean, and Mexico.

Decorated with America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Michener served on the Advisory Council to NASA, held honorary doctorates in five fields from thirty leading universities, and received an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities for his continuing commitment to art in America. James A. Michener died on October 16, 1997.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0517116057
• ISBN 13: 9780517116050
• Binding: Hardcover