Order of James A. Michener Books
James A. Michener (1907-1997) was an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction. He is well-known for the amount of research that went into his work in addition to the length of his novels (900 pages was a short novel for him). Michener was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Tales of the South Pacific, which was published in 1948. His novels have been adapted into several different films as well as multiple TV series and mini-series. Michener died in 1997 of kidney failure at the age of 90.
James A. Michener became a published author in 1948 with the short story collection Tales of the South Pacific. His first novel was The Fires of Spring, which was published in 1949. Below is a list of James A. Michener’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Tales of the South Pacific | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Return to Paradise | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rascals In Paradise | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Watermen: Selections from Chesapeake | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Creatures of the Kingdom | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Bridge at Andau | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Japanese Prints from Early Masters to the Modern | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Modern Japanese Print: An Appreciation | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Presidential Lottery: The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kent State: What Happened and Why | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Michener Miscellany, 1950-1970 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sports in America | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| James A. Michener's USA: The People and The Land | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Six Days in Havana | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pilgrimage: A Memoir of Poland and Rome | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The World is My Home | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Lost Mexico: The Making of a Novel | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| James A. Michener's Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Literary Reflections | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ventures In Editing | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This Noble Land: My Vision for America | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Islam: The Misunderstood Religion | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Note: Six Days in Havana was co-authored with John Kings.
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