Recalled, 'and I was always happy to be on the road meeting new Ways the poorest boy on the road, in others the richest,' Michener has Throughout his life in different parts of the world. Hitchhiked to all parts of America, and he continued to travel widely

While at high school and college Michener (1622-1654), the Italian Renaissance artist Benozzo Gozzoli,

Hisįavorite artists included the Dutch painter Carel Fabritius Michener also started to collect reproductions of paintings. The moment he heard the quartet he began to collect operatic records. Three records, Cohen on the Telephone, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and the sextette from Lucia di Lammermoor, backed by the quartet from Rigoletto. From His Uncle Arthur gave the family a Victorola, a record player, and From hisĮarly youth, Michener was a voracious reader and he listened to opera. Local newspaper and edited the high school student paper. Michener started to write a sports column at the age of fifteen for the Twelve, Michener had his first salaried job – he cultivatedįloering plants at the local Burpee Seed Company's meadows. At one time, thirteenĬhildren lived undet the same roof. Laundry and by taking in orphaned children.

Income as a seamstress, doing the neighbours' Most likely Mabel was in fact his birth mother. Was raised by Mabel Michener, a Quaker widow of a man named Edwin Knowledge of his birth-place or date according to other sources he wasīorn in New York and taken as an orphan to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln andįranklin Roosevelt.' (from The World is My Home, 1992)Īccording to his own words James A. Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of I think that young people who want to understand the world can profitįrom the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three 'I am a humanist because I think humanityĬan, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. Michener wrote his first book at the age of thirty-nineĪnd immediately won a Pulitzer Prize. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪmerican novelist, essayist, and travel book writer, best known for his massive and detailed novels ( Hawaii, Centennial, Texas,Įtc) many of which were created in his workshop with assistants and

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