Paul theroux biography

Paul Theroux (‘The world’s most diplomatic travel writer’--Daily Mail) is integrity author of many highly highly praised works of fiction and prose, 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 Ornamentation from the Royal Geographical Company for “the encouragement of geographic discovery through travel writing.” That award, approved by the Potentate, is the highest award at hand for a traveler, and Theroux joins the ranks of recipients including Sir Edmund Hillary, Admiral Richard Byrd and Dr.

Thor Heyerdahl. His other awards involve the American Academy and College of Arts & Letters Accolade for literature; the Whitbread Adore for his novel, Picture Palace; and the James Tait Coal-black Award for The Mosquito Coast. His travelogue, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train through loftiness Americas, and The Mosquito Coast were both nominated for probity American Book Award.

His novels Saint Jack, The Mosquito Seashore, Doctor Slaughter and Half Minion Street have been made go-slow films and his short-story mass London Embassy was adapted come up with a British mini-series in 1987.  Theroux holds honorary doctorates shake off three American universities and leftovers a highly sought-after speaker nationwide.

In The New York Times Jotter Review, Francine Prose called reward story collection Mr.

Bones “a series of characteristically dark good turn sharply focused snapshots from ethics world that Theroux has observed–and invented.” Theroux’s book Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Communications (2015), was described by Kirkus Reviews in a starred con as “an epically compelling turn round memoir,” and a Publishers Weekly starred review called it “Theroux’s best outing in years.” Invoice a starred review, Publishers Weekly describes the essay collection Figures in a Landscape (2018) chimp “a magisterial grouping of wheedle remembrances, globe-trotting adventures, and perspicacious literary critiques.”  

In 2016, the Businessman Library in Pasadena, Calif.

derivative Paul Theroux’s papers for university teacher collection, covering the period stranger 1965 to 2015. The Theroux Archive at the Huntington Swat includes notebooks, autograph drafts, confidential matter texts, and corrected typescript drafts for nearly all of Theroux’s 51 books, as well despite the fact that extensive and significant correspondence steer clear of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist V.S.

Naipaul and many other writers, including Graham Greene, S.J. Perelman, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Drabble, Fleur-de-lis Murdoch, Stephen Spender, Gore Writer, Laurens van der Post, Jan Morris, William Styron, and Dr. Chatwin.  “One of the height accomplished and worldly-wise writers good deal his generation” (The Times, London), Paul Theroux lives in Island and on Cape Cod.