![]() ![]() It was this experience that inspired Tales of the South Pacific in 1947, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Between 19, Michener taught in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Massachusetts.ĭuring World War II, he joined the Navy, making use of his knowledge of history to carry out sensitive assignments in the South Pacific. ![]() He attended Swarthmore College on scholarship and, after graduating summa cum laude in 1929, he traveled and continued his education, studying abroad in Scotland and teaching in the United States. His love of travel and literature were apparent early in his life – by the time he graduated from high school in 1925, he had hitchhiked through much of the US and read most of Honore de Balzac’s works (May, 2005). James Albert Michener was born in 1907 to unknown parents and raised as an orphan in the care of Mabel Michener of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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