Michener, James Albert

US author

wrote "Tales of the South Pacific" 1947 (Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1948), "The Bridges of Toko-ri" 1953, "Hawaii" 1959, "The Source" 1965, "Centennial" 1974, "Chesapeake" 1978, "The Covenant" 1980, "Space" 1982, "Recessional" 1994

• "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
• "An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."