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Paul Edward Theroux (/ θ ə ˈ r uː /; born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the ...
Jun 14, 2018 · Paul Theroux is the godfather of contemporary travel writing, known for his transporting, first-person classics such as Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Deep South, The Tao of Travel and Dark Star ...
Sara, the daughter of the great Mexican painter Francisco Toledo, announced the publication of a book that I wrote and Francisco illustrated: El Palenque.
Paul Theroux (‘The world’s most perceptive travel writer’--Daily Mail) is the author of many highly acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), The Mosquito Coast (1981) Riding the Iron Rooster (1983), and Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories (2014).In 2015, Paul Theroux was awarded a Royal Medal from the Royal Geographical Society for “the encouragement ...
May 21, 2024 · Paul Theroux, American novelist and travel writer known for his highly personal observations on many locales. His works included the novels The Mosquito Coast (1982) and Under the Wave at Waimea (2021) and the travel books The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) and Deep South (2015).
Jul 3, 2024 · The unstoppables. Paul Theroux on Necessary Solitude, Risks and the Joy of Writing. After 60 years and almost as many books, the novelist and travel writer, 83, will stop when he falls out of his ...
Apr 17, 2014 · Paul Theroux has been charming readers–and rooting out surprising adventures in far-flung places–for more than half a century. Known for his fondness for train travel, love-hate relationship ...
From the legendary American master Paul Theroux comes a brilliant new novel of chilling psychological depth, the tale of a younger brother whose lifelong rivalry with his older brother—a powerful lawyer with a pattern of gleefully vicious betrayals—culminates in the ultimate plan: murder.
Apr 6, 2021 · As Paul Theroux approaches his eightieth birthday, he looks back at a life of enormous upsets and reverses, including wealth and near-bankruptcy, deportation from Malawi on a political charge, and ...
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin.
