Paul Theroux
Autor(a) de The Great Railway Bazaar
About the Author
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 mais 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 por Paul Theroux
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain (1983) — Autor — 1,550 exemplares
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the… (2018) 20 exemplares
The Cold World 11 exemplares
Action 3 exemplares
Malawi: Faces of a Quiet Land 2 exemplares
The Widow 1 exemplar
Vakantieverhalen — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
'Hard lives, hard novels: ... a 'hack with an existential streak'' in TLS 5476, 14 March 2008 1 exemplar
VolPension 1 exemplar
China Passage 1 exemplar
A Game of Dice 1 exemplar
Under the Spell of the Trobriand Islands 1 exemplar
Leper Colony 1 exemplar
Warm Dogs (in Telling Tales - GORDIMER) 1 exemplar
The Ozone 1 exemplar
De benederivier 1 exemplar
The Wicked Coast 1 exemplar
Atlas 8 - Leven en liefdes in Londen 1 exemplar
The Furies 1 exemplar
Na równinie węży 1 exemplar
By Train Across India 1 exemplar
The Spell of the Trobriand Islands 1 exemplar
Phương Đông lướt ngoài cửa sổ 1 exemplar
The Consul's Files 1 exemplar
Associated Works
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
100 Journeys for the Spirit: Sacred, Inspiring, Mysterious, Enlightening (2010) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Op reis met... — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Mexico reisverhalen — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Theroux, Paul
- Data de nascimento
- 1941
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Medford, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Malawi
Uganda
Singapore
Dorset, England, UK (mostrar todos 7)
Hawaii, USA - Educação
- University of Massachusetts
- Relações
- 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) - Organizações
- University of Singapore
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1984) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1977)
Membros
Discussions
Found: Short story about a village who has no written records but a kid chronicler em Name that Book (Março 2022)
Críticas
Listas
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)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 127
- Also by
- 69
- Membros
- 29,405
- Popularidade
- #681
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 604
- ISBN
- 1,036
- Línguas
- 21
- Marcado como favorito
- 91