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100	1		_aMichener, James A. _q(James Albert) _d(, 1907-1997)
245	1	4	_aThe world is my home _b: a memoir _c/ James A. Michener
250			_a1st edition
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, c1992.
300			_a519 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ports., col. maps _c; 25 cm.
500			_aMaps on lining papers.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aMichener, a writer who has enjoyed enormous popular esteem, remains an elusive personality; and his memoir, though frank and open on the surface, brings us no closer to him. The book is considerably entertaining, for his storytelling skills are ever at work, from his wartime years as a young officer in the South Pacific to his service on various Washington committees, his world travels and his life as a successful writer. But it strikes one as unlikely that the reticent, unfussy, modest man he is at pains to portray could have mustered the determination and stamina to create the remarkable career he has enjoyed. Michener likes to see himself as Mr. Average, suggesting perhaps that anyone could have done what he has with what he acknowledges are only moderate gifts. But his accounts of his love of opera, painting and literature, and of the effort he made to educate himself in those arts, show him to be infinitely beyond the ordinary. His rigid standards of fiscal probity and his disdain for the limelight are also virtually unique among living authors, as is the generosity with which he has disposed of his considerable fortune to aid writers less well endowed.
600	1	0	_aMichener, James A. _q(James Albert) _d(, 1907-1997)
650		0	_aNovelists, American _x-20th century - Biography
650		0	_aVoyages and travels
650		4	_aAuthors, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
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