The library at the University of Northern Colorado is named after him. After graduation, he taught at the university for several years. From 1933 to 1936 he taught English at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania, then attended University of Northern Colorado (then known as Colorado State Teachers College) in Greeley, Colorado), where he earned a master's degree. Michener then took a job as a high school English teacher at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. After graduating summa cum laude in 1929 with degrees in English and psychology, he traveled and studied in Europe for two years. He attended Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he played basketball and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Michener graduated from Doylestown High School in 1925. He claimed he was raised a Quaker by an adoptive mother, Mabel Michener, in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Michener wrote that he did not know who his biological parents were or exactly when or where he was born. Return to Paradise combines fictional short stories with Michener's factual descriptions of the Pacific areas where they take place. His nonfiction works include Iberia about his travels in Spain and Portugal his memoir entitled The World Is My Home, and Sports in America. Michener's fiction novels include Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948, Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. Michener was known for the meticulous research behind his work. James Albert Michener (/ˈmɪtʃnər/ Febru– October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which were family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating historical facts into the stories.
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