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James A. Michener

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James A. Michener was an American author best known for expansive historical novels that trace the development of countries, regions and communities across long periods of time. Born in 1907, he served in the United States Navy during the Second World War, an experience that inspired his first book, Tales of the South Pacific. The collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and later became the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.

Michener went on to write major novels including Hawaii, Centennial, Chesapeake, Poland and The Source. His books combine fictional families and characters with political, cultural and geographical history, often spanning several centuries. Known for extensive research and broad narrative scope, he became one of the most widely read American historical novelists of the twentieth century.

Periods and events

1948 Arab–Israeli War1948–1949 CE Age of Explorationc. 1400–1600 CE American Civil War1861–1865 CE American Revolutionary War1775–1783 CE Anglo-Zulu War1879 British Colonisation of the South Pacificlate 18th–19th centuries Caribbean Campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars1793–1802 CE Caribbean Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars1803–1815 CE Crusader States1098–1291 CE Early Colonial America1607–1763 CE Eastern Front of World War II1941–1945 CE Indian Wars of the American West1850–1890 CE Korean War1950–1953 CE Opening of Japan and Treaty Ports1853–1868 CE Pacific War1941–1945 CE Railroad Expansion in the American West1865–1900 CE Reconquista711–1492 CE Republic of Texas1836–1846 CE Russian Empire & Revolution1721–1991 CE Second Boer War1899–1902 CE Spanish Civil War1936–1939 CE Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire1519–1521 CE Spanish Empire in the Americas1492–1825 Teutonic Order and Baltic Crusadesc. 1190–1410 CE Texas–Comanche Conflict1821–1875 CE Vietnam War1955–1975 CE World War II1939–1945 CE

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Non-fiction by James A. Michener (1 book)

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