It's indeed a labor of love- over 800 pages of details about detail. I've finished the book and I can't help wonder if I've done so in record time. Given this, my friend felt it does a indeed do a good job explaining why Baltimore, if the region, have turned out as they have. I'm told that even though the characters are fictional, the timing and major points are historically accurate.

From what I gather thus far, the novel will focus on Chesapeake Bay life, mainly in Maryland and specifically on the Choptank River, one of the estuary's tributories. In 'Chesapeake,' we're taken from the prehistoric Native American days up to the race riots of the 1970s. Michener, I'm told by this friend, is a famed histo-geographical fictionalist, which is to say he writes stories that span centuries in a way in which a geographic location is just as important as the characters who cross it over time.

I posed the same question, and she gave me the answer that had been given to hear, 'You should read 'Chesapeake.'' She's moved on to Denver, but we had a recent conversation about Baltimore, which is where I still reside. A friend told her she should read this book. But he said in his 1992 memoirs that the circumstances of his birth remained cloudy and he did not know just when he was born or who his parents were.Ī friend of mine, upon moving to Baltimore, asked why the area was so eff'd up. Michener's entry in Who's Who in America says he was born on Feb. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, best known for its permanent collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and a room containing Michener's own typewriter, books, and various memorabilia. Toward the end of his life, he created the Journey Prize, awarded annually for the year's best short story published by an emerging Canadian writer founded an MFA program now, named the Michener Center for Writers, at the University of Texas at Austin and made substantial contributions to the James A. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region.

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