Paul Theroux
Autor/a de The Great Railway Bazaar
Sobre l'autor
Paul Edward Theroux was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts and is an acclaimed travel writer. After attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst he joined the Peace Corps and taught in Malawi from 1963 to 1965. He also taught in Uganda at Makerere University and in Singapore at mostra'n més the University of Singapore. Although Theroux has also written travel books in general and about various modes of transport, his name is synonymous with the literature of train travel. Theroux's 1975 best-seller, The Great Railway Bazaar, takes the reader through Asia, while his second book about train travel, The Old Patagonian Express (1979), describes his trip from Boston to the tip of South America. His third contribution to the railway travel genre, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, won the Thomas Cook Prize for best literary travel book in 1989. His literary output also includes novels, books for children, short stories, articles, and poetry. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), which won the Whitbread Award and The Mosquito Coast (1981), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Theroux is a fellow of both the British Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographic Society. His title Lower River made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Currently his 2015 book, Deep South , is a bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) Paul Theroux is the distinguished author of numerous award-winning books, including "The Mosquito Coast," "Kowloon Tong," & "Half Moon Street." (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Obres de Paul Theroux
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain (1983) — Autor — 1,550 exemplars
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the… (2018) 20 exemplars
The Cold World 11 exemplars
Action 3 exemplars
Malawi: Faces of a Quiet Land 2 exemplars
The Widow 1 exemplars
Vakantieverhalen — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
'Hard lives, hard novels: ... a 'hack with an existential streak'' in TLS 5476, 14 March 2008 1 exemplars
VolPension 1 exemplars
China Passage 1 exemplars
A Game of Dice 1 exemplars
Under the Spell of the Trobriand Islands 1 exemplars
Leper Colony 1 exemplars
Warm Dogs (in Telling Tales - GORDIMER) 1 exemplars
The Ozone 1 exemplars
The great raiway bazaar: By train through Asia 1 exemplars
De benederivier 1 exemplars
The Wicked Coast 1 exemplars
Atlas 8 - Leven en liefdes in Londen 1 exemplars
The Furies 1 exemplars
Na równinie węży 1 exemplars
Fresh-Air-Fiend - Travel Writings 1985 - 2000 1 exemplars
By Train Across India 1 exemplars
The Spell of the Trobriand Islands 1 exemplars
Phương Đông lướt ngoài cửa sổ 1 exemplars
The Consul's Files 1 exemplars
Sunrise with Sea Monsters: Travels & Discoveries 1 exemplars
Obres associades
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Col·laborador — 175 exemplars
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Col·laborador — 67 exemplars
100 Journeys for the Spirit: Sacred, Inspiring, Mysterious, Enlightening (2010) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
Op reis met... — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Mexico reisverhalen — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Theroux, Paul
- Data de naixement
- 1941
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Medford, Massachusetts, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Malawi
Uganda
Singapore
Dorset, England, UK (mostra-les totes 7)
Hawaii, USA - Educació
- University of Massachusetts
- Relacions
- Theroux, Marcel (son)
Theroux, Louis (son)
Theroux, Alexander (brother)
Theroux, Peter (brother)
Theroux, Phyllis (sister-in-law)
Theroux, Justin (nephew) (mostra-les totes 7)
Naipaul, V.S. (friend) - Organitzacions
- University of Singapore
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1984) - Premis i honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1977)
Membres
Converses
Found: Short story about a village who has no written records but a kid chronicler a Name that Book (març 2022)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Central America (1)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Folio Society (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Read These Too (1)
Franklit (1)
Tour of Africa (2)
Asia (2)
Fiction For Men (1)
1980s (1)
Page Turners (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 127
- També de
- 69
- Membres
- 29,404
- Popularitat
- #681
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 604
- ISBN
- 1,036
- Llengües
- 21
- Preferit
- 91
Tierra madrees un punzante retrato del impacto que el narcisismo materno puede tener en una familia, un cautivador, doloroso y a menudo divertido relato sobre una gran familia que discute, conspira, se confabula y finalmente vence los dolorosos lazos que la unen.… (més)