James Michener

James Michener was born in 1907, a foundling raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, by Mabel Michener, a Quaker; he never knew his parents or the exact date of his birth. A graduate of Swarthmore, he taught, became an editor at Macmillan, then served in the navy in the South Pacific as a historian. He would write more than forty books, receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and give more than a hundred million dollars to universities, libraries and museums. He died in Austin, Texas, in 1997.

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• Short storiesTales of the South PacificJames Michener · 1947Literature