James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific , which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Toward the end of his life, he created the Journey Prize, awarded annually for the year's best short story published by an emerging Canadian writer; founded an MFA program now, named the Michener Center for Writers, at the University of Texas at Austin; and made substantial contributions to the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, best known for its permanent collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and a room containing Michener's own typewriter, books, and various memorabilia. Michener's entry in Who's Who in America says he was born on Feb. 3, 1907. But he said in his 1992 memoirs that the circumstances of his birth remained cloudy and he did not know just when he was born or who his parents were.
Series
Books
Pilgrimage
1990
Six People Travel the World
1971
Tales of the South Pacific
1947
Sports in America
1976
The World Is My Home
A Memoir
1991
Texas, Volume I
1985
Texas
1985
The Bridges at Toko-ri
1953
Matecumbe
2007
The Bridge at Andau
1957
Report of the County Chairman
1961
Six Days in Havana
1989
Caribbean
1989
Iberia
1968
Texas, Volume 2
1998
Writer's Handbook
Explorations in Writing and Publishing
1992
Miracle in Seville
1995
Literary Reflections
Michener on Michener, Hemingway, Capote, & Others
1993
Animal Stories
Tame and Wild
1979
James A. Michener's USA
1988
Journey
1988
My Lost Mexico
1992
Centennial
1974
South Pacific as told by James A. Michener
1992
Return to Paradise
1951
This Noble Land
My Vision for America
1996
Caravans
1963
Chesapeake
1978
Recessional
1994
Sáu Người Đi Khắp Thế Gian 2
2011
Kent State
What Happened and Why
1971
Rascals in Paradise
1957
The Source
1965
Creatures of the Kingdom
1993
Alaska
1988
Mexico
1992
The Eagle and the Raven
1990
Hawaii
1959
The Novel
1991
Legacy
1987
Islam
The Misunderstood Religion
1983
The Floating World
The Story of Japanese Prints
1954
The Covenant
1980
About Centennial; some notes on the novel
1974
The quality of life,
1970
Alaska/Hawaii
1988
Space
1982
Poland
1983
The Drifters
1971
The Fires of Spring
1949
Firstfruits
A Harvest of 25 Years of Israeli Writing
1973
Presidential Lottery
1969
The Watermen
Selections from Chesapeake
1979
Sayonara
1953
