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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1947
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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Book List in Order: 37 titles



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    Tales of the South Pacific is the iconic, Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning masterpiece that inspired a Broadway classic and launched the career of James A. Michener, one of Americaā€™s most beloved storytellers. This thrilling work invites the reader to ente...



  • James A. Michener, the master of historical fiction, revisits the scenes of his first great work, Tales of the South Pacific, the Pulitzer Prize winner that brought him international acclaim. In this sequel collection, Michener once again evokes the ...



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    From a great master of historical fiction comes a brilliant tale of love amid war. James A. Michener combines powerful storytelling with deep sensitivity in this novel of a U.S. Army man who, against all odds, falls for a fascinating Japanese woman. ...



  • In one of his beloved early bestsellers, Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning author James A. Michener crafts a tale of the American men who fought the Korean War, detailing their exploits in the air as well as their lives on the ground. Young and innocent, they...



  • The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian...



  • In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten ...



  • "[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama, wonderful."
    THE BALTIMORE SUN
    America's preeminent storyteller, James Michener, introduced an entire generation of readers to a lush, exotic world in the Pacific with this classic novel. But ...



  • First published in 1963, James A. Michenerā€™s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the...



  • In his signature style of grand storytelling, James A. Michener transports us back thousands of years to the Holy Land. Through the discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Michener vividly re-creates life in an ancient...






  • An intimate early novel from James A. Michener, now remembered as the beloved master of the historical epic, The Fires of Spring unfolds with the bittersweet drama of a boyā€™s perilous journey into manhood. David Harper is an orphan, seemingly doome...



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    Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michenerā€™s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. ...





  • In this triumphant bestseller, renowned novelist James A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dre...



  • Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State&m...




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    The ship of the title is an over-age U.S. destroyer in the far Pacific. Its crew ranges from the most upright and spotless of officers to the lowest and most brutish of stokers. By the time you finish the chronicle of deep, and its encounters with th...



  • In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of Americaā€™s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to esca...



  • Showcasing the evocative artwork created by John Moll for this special edition, James A. Michenerā€™s The Watermen is a unique tribute to the adventurous seafarers of the Chesapeake Bay. Excerpted from the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning authorā€™s classic ...



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    Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the Java-born...






  • Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and wom...



  • In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united, at others tragi...



  • "A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, Anglos and Hispanics, frontier and settlement, money and power...James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work....He manages to make history vivid and pala...



  • To the north lies Alaska, the vast untamed land that master storyteller James Michener now reveals in all of its awesome, sweeping majesty. The native peoples of Alaska have spent millions of lifetimes confronting the most fearsome elements of des...



  • In this sweeping novel inspired by the Iran-Contra affair, master storyteller James A. Michener conjures the triumphs and tragedies of one family and their dynamic role in the history of the United States and its founding document. Over a tense weeke...



  • "The best novel of James Michener's career." Milwaukee Journal
    Gold fever swept the world in 1897. The chance for untold riches sent thousands of dreamers on a perilous trek toward their fortunes, failures, or deaths. Follow four English aristocra...



  • In this acclaimed classic novel, James A. Michener sweeps readers off to the Caribbean, bringing to life the eternal allure and tumultuous history of this glittering string of islands. From the 1310 conquest of the Arawaks by cannibals to the decline...



  • In a story set against the backdrop of one of the most exciting periods of Texas history, a fireband renegade from Tennessee, Sam Houston, emigrates to the Mexican state of Tejas and helps lead the revolution of 1836, which resulted in the free sover...



  • In this riveting, ambitious novel from James A. Michener, the renowned chronicler of epic history turns his extraordinary imagination to a world he knew better than anyone: the world of books. Lukas Yoder, a novelist who has enjoyed a long, successfu...



  • Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as a...






  • In sixteen wonderful stories, Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning author James A. Michener burrows deep into the secret lives of animals and the hidden world of nature. Here he sheds light on natureā€™s most awesome and beguiling handiwork, from the sublime sha...



  • The best-selling novelist recounts the genesis, development, abandonment, and resurrection thirty years later of his novel, Mexico, in a book that includes a previously unpublished novella, The Texas Girls. Reissue....



  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener has been writing for over seven decades. This book presents Michener's analysis of his own writing and that of his peers--his reflections, remembrances, and stories of his youthful encounters with the e...



  • "MICHENER IS AMERICA'S BEST WRITER."
    --The Pittsburgh Press

    In his stunning new novel, bestselling novelist James A. Michener draws on his unparalleled gift for storytelling, his deep understanding of American society, and his own life expe...



  • James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning master of the historical saga, returns to his beloved Spain with this magical novel of Seville at Easter time, a season of splendid pageantry, thrilling bullfights, deep piety -- and the possibility of ...



  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener was in his sixties when he began traveling frequently to the Florida Keys. One result of those visits was the novel Matecumbe, named after two of the islands that comprise the town of Islamorada, locate...



  • Literary legend James A. Michener was ā€œa Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heartā€ (The New York Times Book Review). In this exceptional memoir, the man himself tells ...



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    With his genius for research and his mastery of many cultures, James A. Michener cuts to the heart of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine America today: racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James A. Michener has published 37 books.

James A. Michener does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The World Is My Home, was published in September 2015.

The first book by James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific, was published in January 1947.

No. James A. Michener does not write books in series.