James A. Michener's Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing

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Pulitzer Prizewinning author James A. Michener has written about everything from the pristine islands of the South Pacific and the endless wilds of Africa to Spanish bullfighters, American revolutionaries, and pirates of the Caribbean. Now Michener turns to his favorite and most personal subject: the written word. Reproducing pages from his own handwritten rough drafts and working manuscripts, Michener walks the reader through a step-by-step guide to the entire process of writing, editing, revising, and publishing. Addressing challenges specific to both fiction and nonfiction, all the while providing thoughtful and useful solutions, James A. Micheners Writers Handbook is an invaluable resource for book lovers, editors, and, of course, writersaspiring and accomplished alike.

Praise for James A. Michener

A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon.The Wall Street Journal

Sentence for sentence, writings fastest attention grabber.The New York Times

Michener has become an institution in America, ranking somewhere between Disneyland and the Library of Congress. You learn a lot from him.Chicago Tribune

While he fascinates and engrosses, Michener also educates.Los Angeles Times

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Praise for James A. Michener

A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon.The Wall Street Journal

Sentence for sentence, writings fastest attention grabber.The New York Times

Michener has become an institution in America, ranking somewhere between Disneyland and the Library of Congress. You learn a lot from him.Chicago Tribune

While he fascinates and engrosses, Michener also educates.Los Angeles Times

Author Bio

James A. Michener was one of the worlds most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received Americas highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.