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Michener's South Pacific

Stephen J. May

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Description:When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, James A. Michener was an obscure textbook editor working in New York. Within three years, he was a naval officer stationed in the South Pacific. By the end of the decade, he was an accomplished author, well on the way to worldwide fame.Michener s first novel, "Tales of the South Pacific," won the Pulitzer Prize. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein used it as the basis for the Broadway musical "South Pacific," which also won the Pulitzer. How this all came to be is the subject of Stephen May s "Michener s South Pacific."An award-winning biographer of Michener, May was a featured interviewee on the fiftieth-anniversary DVD release of the film version of the musical. During taping, he realized there was much he didn t know about how Michener s experiences in the South Pacific shaped the man and led to his early work.May delves deeply into this formative and turbulent period in Michener s life and career, using letters, journal entries, and naval records to examine how a reserved, middle-aged lieutenant known as "Prof" to his fellow officers became one of the most successful writers of the twentieth century.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Michener's South Pacific. To get started finding Michener's South Pacific, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: University Press of Florida

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0813037867

Description: When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, James A. Michener was an obscure textbook editor working in New York. Within three years, he was a naval officer stationed in the South Pacific. By the end of the decade, he was an accomplished author, well on the way to worldwide fame.Michener s first novel, "Tales of the South Pacific," won the Pulitzer Prize. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein used it as the basis for the Broadway musical "South Pacific," which also won the Pulitzer. How this all came to be is the subject of Stephen May s "Michener s South Pacific."An award-winning biographer of Michener, May was a featured interviewee on the fiftieth-anniversary DVD release of the film version of the musical. During taping, he realized there was much he didn t know about how Michener s experiences in the South Pacific shaped the man and led to his early work.May delves deeply into this formative and turbulent period in Michener s life and career, using letters, journal entries, and naval records to examine how a reserved, middle-aged lieutenant known as "Prof" to his fellow officers became one of the most successful writers of the twentieth century.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Michener's South Pacific. To get started finding Michener's South Pacific, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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