James Michener is my favorite writer, so I named this character after him as a tribute. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Steve Berry about The Third Secret] Reference
Mr. Michener is a Rhodes Scholar and still possess much athletic competence, particularly at the Grey Cup games. From Wordnik.com. [Dinner in Honour of The Toronto Scottish Regiment] Reference
To keep another of our fine traditions intact, I must announce to you at this time that Mr. Michener is resigning at the end of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Luncheon] Reference
Hawaii, '' Michener's first blockbuster best seller, appeared in 1959. From Wordnik.com. [An Epic Writer, An Epic Life] Reference
6: 15 a.m. Monsignor Colin Michener heard the sound again and closed the book. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Third Secret by Steve Berry] Reference
And you're probably not a typical Michener reader. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Incognito]
Even my sneaking fondness for Michener didn't help. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Obviously a Sucker for a List Meme] Reference
"The road will be longer and harder," said Michener. From Wordnik.com. [Errol Uys biography] Reference
Actually it is Michener and the book is Sports in America. From Wordnik.com. [Sports as the Spice of Life - The Austrian Economists] Reference
SPACE is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. From Wordnik.com. [Space]
(According to Michener, it even included uncrated new jeeps.). From Wordnik.com. [A Pacific Theater of Memories] Reference
And I believe James Michener said, you know, that is the show. From Wordnik.com. [The Hammersteins' Path From Brooms to Broadway] Reference
Walter's books, I mean, not Michener; I've read most of Michener's. From Wordnik.com. [Worldcon Wrapup] Reference
"I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific," Michener begins. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric Pacific] Reference
Ann Packer is a past recipient of a James Michener award and a National. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Packer biography] Reference
River was to produce, according to James A. Michener in his book Space. From Wordnik.com. [Lawrence, William P.] Reference
Michener was disarmingly honest about his drawbacks as a fiction writer. From Wordnik.com. [An Epic Writer, An Epic Life] Reference
Michener was his guide: "She opened my eyes to what was possible," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Shooting Himself] Reference
Save for the occasional Michener and Wouk, fiction didn't hold his interest. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Michener awoke the magic of believing that I could go out and be a writer on. From Wordnik.com. [Errol Uys biography] Reference
One of the people with whom he posed for pictures is Michael "Mike" Michener. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on a Hillary Concession] Reference
I worked with Michener for two years on his South African book, The Covenant. From Wordnik.com. [Errol Uys biography] Reference
When Michener and I met, it was clear that we were thinking along similar lines. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Errol Uys] Reference
I thought I knew how it felt to be Louis L'Amour or James Michener or even Dickens. From Wordnik.com. [October 2009] Reference
Could you imagine if Michener and Steinbeck had internet access when they were alive. From Wordnik.com. [nightnurse Diary Entry] Reference
Roland Michener, volunteered for the Royal Air Force in Canada in the spring of 1918. From Wordnik.com. [Our Responsibility to Youth] Reference
Michener sums up the importance of the naval battle, in our final excerpt from Chesapeake. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: The Forgotten Battle Which Won The American Revolution] Reference
Michener says tolerance and kindness can overcome differences in race, culture and language. From Wordnik.com. [All Men Are My Brothers] Reference
The Selfish Gene by Dawkins and The Source by Michener convinced me me completely on atheism. From Wordnik.com. [How to intimidate your enemies, circa 1097] Reference
The reading of his works led to Melville, Conrad and London (and later to James A. Michener). From Wordnik.com. [JACK LONDON: THE VARIABLE IN MY LIFE] Reference
When I quit the Digest to put my grand plan into action, Michener sent me an encouraging note. From Wordnik.com. [Errol Uys biography] Reference
Michener gets everything right, from the pronunciation of Kabul -- "cobble" -- to the archaeology. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best] Reference
There was a Michener book on the writing process for his novel "Mexico" I would have liked to read. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
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