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<p>James Michener's vast work has intrigued millions of readers. Popularizing history, he wrote extensively about travel and covered broad areas of America in books such as Centennial, Texas, Hawaii, Alaska, and Chesapeake. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his first book, Tales of the South Pacific, which he wrote at the age of forty, and his books were made into television mini-series, movies, and musicals.</p> <p>In conversations that took place between 1980 and October 1997, days before his death, Michener met with Lawrence Grobel at Michener's homes in Florida, Maine, and Texas, as well as in New York and Los Angeles. The two discussed topics of both a personal and professional nature and touched on subjects Michener avoided in his own memoir.</p> <p>The product of these revealing discussions is Talking with Michener, the first full-length book of in-depth interviews with the famed writer.</p> <p>In the thirteen chapters of the book, Michener explores sex, love, pornography, politics abortion, AIDS, plagiarism, sports, the current state of publishing, and the status of the artist in society. To Grobel, he reveals many personal milestones and struggles—his dialysis; the death of hi

Author

Grobel, Lawrence; Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781578061396

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14