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مجاله: اديب امريكي.
James Albert Michener (
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;
[1]
February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997)
[2]
was an
American
author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which were sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating historical facts into the stories. Michener was known for the meticulous research behind his work.
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
. His nonfiction works include the 1968
Iberia
about his travels in Spain and Portugal, his 1992 memoir
The World Is My Home
, and
Sports in America
.
Return to Paradise
combines fictional short stories with Michener's factual descriptions of the Pacific areas where they take place
Michener wrote that he did not know who his biological parents were or exactly when or where he was born.
[2]
He was raised a
Quaker
by an adoptive mother, Mabel Michener, in
Doylestown
,
Bucks County
,
Pennsylvania
.
After graduating
Phi Beta Kappa
[3]
and
summa cum laude
in 1929 from
Swarthmore College
in English and psychology, he traveled and studied in Europe for two years. Michener then took a job as a high school English teacher at Hill School in
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
. From 1933 to 1936 he taught English at
George School
, in
Newtown, Pennsylvania
, then attended
Colorado State Teachers College
(now the
University of Northern Colorado
in
Greeley
,
Colorado
), earned his master's degree, and taught there for several years. The library at the University of Northern Colorado is named for him. In 1935 Michener married Patti Koon. He went to
Harvard
for a one-year teaching stint from 1939 to 1940 and left teaching to join
Macmillan Publishers
as their social studies education editor.
Michener was called to active duty during
World War II
in the United States Navy. He traveled throughout the South Pacific on various missions that were assigned to him because his base commanders thought he was the son of Admiral
Marc Mitscher
.
[4]
His travels became the setting for his breakout work
Tales of the South Pacific
.
In 1960, Michener was chairman of the
Bucks County
committee to elect
John F. Kennedy
. In 1962, he unsuccessfully ran as a Democratic candidate for a seat in the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania, a decision he later considered a misstep. "My mistake was to run in 1962 as a Democratic candidate for Congress. [My wife] kept saying, 'Don't do it, don't do it.' I lost and went back to writing books." Michener was later Secretary for the 1967–68 Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention.
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