23 Facts About James Michener

James Michener wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history.

James Michener's books include Tales of the South Pacific, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948; Hawaii; The Drifters; Centennial; The Source; The Fires of Spring; Chesapeake; Caribbean; Caravans; Alaska; Texas; Space; Poland; and The Bridges at Toko-ri.

James Michener wrote Presidential Lottery: The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System, in which he condemned the United States' Electoral College system.

James Michener later wrote that he did not know who his biological parents were, or exactly when or where he was born.

James Michener was raised a Quaker by an adoptive mother, Mabel Michener, in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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James Michener attended Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he played basketball and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

James Michener took a job as a high school English teacher at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

James Michener accepted a Guest Lecturer position at Harvard, from 1939 to 1940, but left to join Macmillan Publishers as their social studies education editor.

James Michener traveled throughout the South Pacific Ocean on various assignments which he gained because his base commanders mistakenly thought his father was Admiral Marc Mitscher.

In 1960, Michener was chairman of the Bucks County committee to elect Democrat John F Kennedy as the 35th President.

In 1968, Michener served as the campaign manager for the third-term run of the twice-elected U S Senator Joseph S Clark of Pennsylvania.

Also that year, James Michener was a member of the Electoral College, serving as a Pennsylvania Democrat.

James Michener wrote about that experience in a political science text Presidential Lottery: The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System, which was published the following year.

James Michener later turned his notes and impressions into Tales of the South Pacific, his first book, published when he was age 40.

James Michener did lend his name to a different television series, Adventures in Paradise, in 1959, starring Gardner McKay as Captain Adam Troy in the sailing ship Tiki III.

James Michener used this approach for nearly all of his subsequent novels, which were based on detailed historical, cultural, and even geological research.

James Michener met his third wife, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, at a luncheon in Chicago.

James Michener divorced Nord in 1955 and married Sabusawa the same year.

James Michener said he had accomplished what he wanted and did not want further physical complications.

James Michener was cremated, and his ashes were placed next to those of his wife at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery in Austin, Texas.

James Michener is honored by a memorial headstone at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.

James Michener left most of his estate and book copyrights to Swarthmore College, where he earned his bachelor's degree.

James Michener had donated his papers to the University of Northern Colorado, where he earned his master's degree.