Michener may be too detailed for some, but I loved the way he built this story bit by bit. I put off reading it because I was afraid I wouldn't like it - it would be dated, too detailed (my mom hates Michener for this reason), and I've seen 'The Right Stuff.' But reading it was more proof that he knows me too well. My husband gave this to me when we were dating - a surprise package sent in the mail through a secondhand bookstore. 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. Michener's entry in Who's Who in America says he was born on Feb. 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. 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. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Michener is a superb storyteller.James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region. And if you’re not a Michener fan, Centennial will make you one.” - The Pittsburgh Press If you’re a Michener fan, this book is a must. “Michener is America’s best writer, and he proves it once again in Centennial. teeming with people and giving a marvelous sense of the land.” - The Plain Dealer While he fascinates and engrosses, Michener also educates.” - Los Angeles Times In Centennial, trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters are brought together in the dramatic conflicts that shape the destiny of the legendary West-and the entire country.īONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A.
Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado-the Centennial State-is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Synopsis: Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A.
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