James A. Michener was one of the world's most popular writers, the
author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction,
including the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 America's
highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977,
and an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and
Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener
died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
A. Grove Day was a prolific author, teacher, and scholar of Hawaii
and the South Pacific who wrote or edited more than fifty books.
Born in Philadelphia and educated at Stanford University, where he
befriended John Steinbeck, Day was also one of the co-founders of
Pacific Science- A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical
Sciences of the Pacific Region. Many of his works, including Mark
Twain's Letters from Hawaii and Best South Sea Stories, remain
local bestsellers in Hawaii. He died in 1994 at the age of
eighty-nine.
“The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared
in a long time . . . a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities
that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on
end.”—The New York Times
“[Combines] research and scholarship (A. Grove Day was a professor
at the University of Hawaii) with a gift for spinning a yarn and
depicting character (Michener, journalist and novelist, needs no
introduction).”—Kirkus Reviews
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