Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Obras de Paul Theroux
El Gran bazar del ferrocarril : un viaje en tren por Turquía, Extremo Oriente y Siberia (1975) 2,844 copias
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the… (2018) 20 copias
The Cold World 10 copias
Action 3 copias
Malawi: Faces of a Quiet Land 2 copias
A Game of Dice 1 copia
Leper Colony 1 copia
China Passage 1 copia
The Furies 1 copia
Phương Đông lướt ngoài cửa sổ 1 copia
By Train Across India 1 copia
VolPension 1 copia
'Hard lives, hard novels: ... a 'hack with an existential streak'' in TLS 5476, 14 March 2008 1 copia
Vakantieverhalen — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Widow 1 copia
The Wicked Coast 1 copia
Na równinie węży 1 copia
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El peor viaje del mundo : la expedición de Scott al Polo Sur (1922) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 1,908 copias
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuidor — 72 copias
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Contribuidor — 67 copias
100 Journeys for the Spirit: Sacred, Inspiring, Mysterious, Enlightening (2010) — Contribuidor — 56 copias
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Contribuidor — 52 copias
Op reis met... — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Mexico reisverhalen — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Theroux, Paul
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1941
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Medford, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Malawi
Uganda
Singapore
Dorset, England, UK (mostrar todos 7)
Hawaii, USA - Educación
- University of Massachusetts
- Relaciones
- Theroux, Marcel (son)
Theroux, Louis (son)
Theroux, Alexander (brother)
Theroux, Peter (brother)
Theroux, Phyllis (sister-in-law)
Theroux, Justin (nephew) (mostrar todos 7)
Naipaul, V.S. (friend) - Organizaciones
- University of Singapore
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1984) - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1977)
Miembros
Debates
Found: Short story about a village who has no written records but a kid chronicler en Name that Book (marzo 2022)
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Tour of Africa (2)
Asia (2)
Fiction For Men (1)
Franklit (1)
Page Turners (1)
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- Idiomas
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