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title	:	Talking With Michener
author	:	Grobel, Lawrence.; Michener, James A.
publisher	:	University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin	:	1578061393
print isbn13	:	9781578061396
ebook isbn13	:	9780585179964
language	:	English
subject	Michener, James A.--(James Albert),--1907---Interviews, Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews, Historical fiction--Authorship.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	PS3525.I19Z67 1999eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	Michener, James A.--(James Albert),--1907---Interviews, Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews, Historical fiction--Authorship.

Page i Talking with Michener

Page ii I'moneoftheguyswhosat aroundthefireanddidthe talking. James A. Michener

Page iii Talking with Michener By Lawrence Grobel University Press of Mississippi Jackson

Page iv www.upress.state.ms.us Copyright 1999 by Lawrence Grobel All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First edition 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 4 3 2 1 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grobel, Lawrence. Talking with Michener / by Lawrence Grobel. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-57806-139-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-Interviews. 2. Novelist, American20th century Interviews. 3. Historical fictionAuthorship. I. Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907 II. Title. PS3525.119Z67 1999 813'.54dc21 [B] 99-20065 CIP British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available

Page v Contents Introduction ix 1 A Personal Agenda 1 2 Way Ahead of My Generation 17 3 A Teller of Stories 39 4 The Mystery of the Sexes 59 5 Eating Your Enemy for Manna & Other Tales of the Quite Specific 71 6 Mich the Witch 91 7 Portrait of the Writer: Guts & Poses 105 8 Assessing the Talent in the Backroom 127 9 Bobby Fischer, Jimmy Foxx, & The Deadly Flying Wedge 147 10 The Weight of the World 167 11 Awakening from the American Dream 183 12 The Politics & Polemics of the Last Die-Hard Liberal 201 13 Sayonara 229 Afterword by James A. Michener 235 Books by James A. Michener 253 Index 255

Page vii For Jim, who, once he started, never stopped; and for Maya, Hana and Zachary, the next generation.

Page ix Introduction On the first day of February, 1996, James A. Michener looked out his window and forgot momentarily that he was in Austin, Texas. The thin layer of clean white snow covering the ground reminded him of other places in other times, of Alaska and the Antarctic. When he snapped back from his Proustian revery, he remembered his promise to a local bookstore that he would appear on his eighty-ninth birthday, Saturday, February 3rd, but it just didn't seem prudent now, in such weather. He wasn't able to get around without the aid of a cane and helping hand, couldn't even lift himself from his chair without help. When he told his aide, John Kings, that the birthday celebration might have to be cancelled, Kings reminded him that a lot of people were planning to come from as far away as New York to wish him a happy birthday. The next day, Friday, the roads were so slick and the weather so cold that the bookstore stayed closed. Michener, however, ventured out for his dialysis treatmentpart of an alternate-day routine that he could not miss. The blood cleansing was not pleasant and left him exhausted, but he had learned to accept the process. His kidney failure during a 1994 visit to the Far East had put an end to his century-long career as a world traveler. Now, confined to one city, he made the most of his situationentertaining, watching the passing parade on CNN, reading the N.Y. Times, playing along on Jeopardy, and writing. His latest work was a novella called MiracleinSeville, and his next book, ThisNoble

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