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

Jacket Description/Flap: One of America's foremost authors describes the process of writing and publishing a book in this invaluable step-by-step guide for writers, editors, and book lovers. Biographical Note: 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."Review Quotes: Praise for James A. Michener A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. "The Wall Street Journal" Sentence for sentence, writing s 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""Review Quotes: Praise for James A. Michener "A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon."--"The Wall Street Journal" "Sentence for sentence, writing's 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"Publisher Marketing: Pulitzer Prize winning 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. Michener s Writer s Handbook "is an invaluable resource for book lovers, editors, and, of course, writers aspiring 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, writing s 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""

Contributor Bio:  Michener, James A Universally revered novelist James A. Michener was forty before he decided on writing as a career. Prior to that, he had been an outstanding academic, an editor, and a U. S. Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His first book, Tales of the South Pacific, won a Pulitzer Prize and became the basis of the award-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. In the course of the next forty years Mr. Michener wrote such monumental bestsellers as Sayonara, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Hawaii, The Source, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Alaska, Caribbean, and Mexico. Decorated with America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Michener served on the Advisory Council to NASA, held honorary doctorates in five fields from thirty leading universities, and received an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities for his continuing commitment to art in America. James A. Michener died on October 16, 1997. Contributor Bio:  Berry, Steve STEVE BERRY is the "New York Times" and #1 internationally bestselling author of ten Cotton Malone adventures, four stand-alone novels, and four short story originals. He has twenty million books in print, translated into forty languages and sold in fifty-one countries. With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of History Matters, a foundation dedicated to historic preservation. He was awarded the 2013 Writers for Writers Award from "Poets & Writers Magazine", has twice acted as national spokesman for the American Library Association's Preservation Week, and is a member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board. He is a founding member of International Thriller Writers and served three years as its co-president.