The World Is My Home

Literary legend James A. Michener was a Renaissance man adventurous inquisitive unpretentious and unassuming with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart (The New York Times Book Review). In this exceptional memoir the man himself tells the story of his remarkable life and describes the people events and ideas that shaped it. Moving backward and forward across time he writes about the many strands of his experience: his passion for travel; his lifelong infatuation with literature music and painting; his adventures in politics; and the hard work headaches and rewards of the writing life. Here at last is the real James Michener: plainspoken wise and enormously sympathetic a man who could truly say The world is my home.. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener''s Hawaii. Praise for The World Is My Home Micheners own life makes one of his most engaging talesa classic American success story.Entertainment Weekly The Michener saga is as full of twists as any of his monumental works. . . . His output his political interests his patriotic service his diligence and the breadth of his readership are matched only by the great nineteenth-century writers whose works he devoured as he grew upDickens Balzac Mark Twain.Chicago Tribune There are splendid yarns about [Micheners] wartime doings in the South Pacific. There are hilarious cautionary tales about his service on government commissions. There are wonderful inside stories from the publishing business. And always there is Michener himselfanalyzing his own character assessing himself as a writer chronicling his intellectual life giving advice to young writers.The Plain Dealer A sweepingly interesting life . . . Whether hes having an epiphany over a campout in New Guinea with head-hunting cannibals or getting politically charged by the melodrama of great opera James A. Micheners world is a place and a time worth reading about.The Christian Science Monitor