I’m obsessed with James Michener. If you’ve been in the historical fiction section of any bookstore, you’re surely to come across one, or many, of his books. More often than not, it will be the fat ...

One name — Michener — was most missed by readers from our list of 53 of the best books about Texas, published recently. My colleague Dave Thomas and I recommended the titles we thought had most ...

The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas is about to lose its director. James Magnuson is retiring in May after 23 years in the role. "James Magnuson made the Michener Center a ...

IBERIA by James A. Michener. 818 pages. Random House. $10. This hefty, meticulous report on the authors meanderings and experiences in Spain is, he says, “a 19th century English-style travel book.” ...

When I was a young teenager in the mid-1960s, the young adult genre of books was a mish-mash of Nancy Drew, Sue Barton, The Hardy Boys, Little Women, Treasure Island and David Copperfield. Once we ...

THE SOURCE by James Michener. 909 pages. Random House. $7.95. The past is changing almost as rapidly as the present. In the past two decades modern archaeology has so drastically rewritten ancient ...

I have a friend who once said he thought it would be interesting if James Michener, rather than writing on such sweeping topics as Texas and Chesapeake, would write a book about his bedroom. Imagine ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Owen Laster, a literary agent and executive of old-fashioned ...

James Michener wanted the best graduate writing program in the country. And he was willing to give the University of Texas $20 million to get it. That was the situation in 1994 when this king of the ...