Michener’s is an epic account weighing in at 1,136 pages and, I appreciate that within the book it contained two maps and genealogical charts of the main families that brought the author’s tale of Hawaii to his readers.
Michener’s HAWAII has forever seared in my brain a history of mankind who were the eventual stewards of the Hawaiian island chain. The only images that remain with me, at this point in my life, are one of a man walking on the beach (wearing a stovetop hat and an all black suit!), and, the beautiful Hawaiian people. I am rather a late-comer to reading this novel, but it is one that I have always had on my mind to read after seeing the 1966 movie Hawaii when it was finally run on television.
HAWAII is a work of historical fiction that was first released in 1959. and made me a reader, but more than that a LOVER of books. She introduced me to several other great books during that semester - The Great Gatsby, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and others. Fine that taught HOOKED ON BOOKS at East Brunswick High School, in East Bruns., NJ in 1973. Easily became one of my favorite books of all time. then BAM!!! The story exploded! People came to life, exciting interaction. she encouraged me to read just a little bit more. next 50 pages, just as boring, natives from other lands discovering Hawaii and coming it. I went back to complain that it was boring, she encouraged me to keep reading. no dialouge, just info about how the island was formed by volcanos. Hawaii was the first book she chose for me. Read several books, do book reports, get a grade. I only took her class "Hooked on Books" because I thought it was and easy A. Fine" introduced me to this very large book. 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. James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region.
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