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Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travelogue writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast. He is the father of Marcel and Louis Theroux, and the brother of Alexander and Peter. Justin Theroux is his nephew.
1990
2022
1972
People and Places
2018
1975
Travel Writings
2000
On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
2008
1984
Paddling the Pacific
1992
2016
1976
1968
Three Novels of Africa
1996
Four Seasons on Back Roads
2015
2001
1984
Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
2004
2014
1971
A Crime in Calcutta
2009
2007
My Ultimate African Safari
2012
1980
2005
2021
1980
By Train Through China
1988
2026
2001
1989
1985
1978
1982
1985
Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
2011
Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
2002
A Mexican Journey
2019
1996
1995
An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
2012
1978
1998
A Friendship Across Five Continents
1998
1982
1983
2005
1969
1973
1986
2024
1997
1968
2003
1990
1996
1969
2012
2019
The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
2018
1984
1972
1995
1981
2017
1974
1985
By Train Through the Americas
1979
1993
Stories
2025