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Michael John Arlen (born December 9, 1930, London, England) [1] is an American writer, primarily of non-fiction and personal history, as well as a longtime staff writer and television critic for The New Yorker.
The son of the prominent Anglo-Armenian writer, Michael Arlen. He is the author of Exiles and the critically acclaimed Passage to Ararat, both of which are autobiographical narratives of Arlen's Armenian ancestry.
Jun 1, 1970 · Michael J. Arlen. 3.84. 89 ratings15 reviews. Exiles is the story of two glamorous people—one, a beautiful aristocrat; the other, a self-made man, one of the most famous authors of the 1920s.
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Jan 1, 2001 · I like this memoir of Michael J Arlen's rediscovering his Armenian heritage and Armenia's past and contemporary history (into the Soviet era). Motivated by his father's secrecy about the family's Armenian roots, Arlen visits there, a guest of the Cultural Committee, to read histories, to meet residents, to explore the city and ...
Michael J. Arlen's books include Exiles (nominated for a National Book Award), Passage to Ararat (winner of a National Book Award), and three collections of essays on television: Living-Room War, The View from Highway 1, and The Camera Age.
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Oct 12, 2010 · Michael J. Arlen gets the glitter. And, even more, the courage that kept his father going. He tells the delicious story of his father running into Louis B. Mayer, the movie mogul, at the "21" Club in New York.
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Oct 1, 1997 · Michael J. Arlen. Syracuse University Press, Oct 1, 1997 - Performing Arts - 256 pages. "One doesn't have to be a panjandrum of Communications to realize that television does something to...
Oct 12, 2010 · In this slender volume, which was nominated for the 1970 National Book Award and helped reestablish the memoir as a genre, Michael J. Arlen evokes—with humor and honesty—his parents' seemingly charmed life in Hollywood and New York, his own childhood spent between homes and boarding schools, and the decline of a family full of ...
May 16, 2006 · In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people ...
