5/10/2023 0 Comments Hawaii novel by james michener![]() ![]() Expertly applying his tried-and-true formula, he wove big, old-fashioned narratives involving generations of fictional families as they moved through expertly documented events in history. ![]() Michener was often scorned by critics even as he achieved a huge and appreciative following. 1 best sellers in the half-century history of the weekly New York Times best-seller list. ![]() As of late 1992, he was one of only eight authors who had written six or more No. Michener moved from his brief tales of people to his monumental sagas of places - beginning with ''Hawaii'' in 1959 - that he became one of those rare writers whose books are snatched up by the book clubs and become almost automatic best sellers even before they hit the book stores. Although it later became a classic Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein and a successful film, it was not a best seller at first. ''Tales of the South Pacific,'' a collection of stories he began while he was in the Navy during World War II, was his first published fiction and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. ![]()
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