Michener's South Pacific

James Michener's first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, won the Pulitzer Prize. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein used it as the basis for the Broadway musical South Pacific, which also won the Pulitzer. How this all came to be is the subject of this title. Stephen May delves deeply into the formative and turbulent years Michener spent serving in the South Pacific, using letters, journal entries, and naval records to examine how a reserved, middle-aged lieutenant became one of...
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James Michener's first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, won the Pulitzer Prize. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein used it as the basis for the Broadway musical South Pacific, which also won the Pulitzer. How this all came to be is the subject of this title. Stephen May delves deeply into the formative and turbulent years Michener spent serving in the South Pacific, using letters, journal entries, and naval records to examine how a reserved, middle-aged lieutenant became one of the most successful writers of the twentieth century.