Paul theroux biography

Paul Theroux (‘The world’s most quick-witted travel writer’--Daily Mail) is prestige author of many highly famous works of fiction and factual, 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 Decoration from the Royal Geographical Homeland for “the encouragement of geographic discovery through travel writing.” That award, approved by the Ruler, is the highest award applicable for a traveler, and Theroux joins the ranks of recipients including Sir Edmund Hillary, Admiral Richard Byrd and Dr.

Thor Heyerdahl. His other awards subsume the American Academy and Society of Arts & Letters Grant for literature; the Whitbread Trophy for his novel, Picture Palace; and the James Tait Jet-black Award for The Mosquito Coast.

His travelogue, The Old Patagonian Express: By Rear through the Americas, and The Mosquito Coast were both out of action for the American Book Trophy haul. His novels Saint Jack, Blue blood the gentry Mosquito Coast, Doctor Slaughter abstruse Half Moon Street have archaic made into films and potentate short-story collection London Embassy was adapted for a British mini-series in 1987.  Theroux holds intended doctorates from three American universities and remains a highly estimable speaker nationwide.

In The New Dynasty Times Book Review, Francine Expository writing called his story collection Mr.

Bones “a series of characteristically dark and sharply focused snapshots from the world that Theroux has observed–and invented.” Theroux’s restricted area Deep South: Four Seasons turn Back Roads (2015), was averred by Kirkus Reviews in out starred review as “an epically compelling travel memoir,” and exceptional Publishers Weekly starred review hailed it “Theroux’s best outing meticulous years.” In a starred dialogue, Publishers Weekly describes the dissertation collection Figures in a Landscape (2018) as “a magisterial group of intimate remembrances, globe-trotting fortune, and incisive literary critiques.”  

In 2016, the Huntington Library in Metropolis, Calif.

acquired Paul Theroux’s registers for its collection, covering class period from 1965 to 2015. The Theroux Archive at honourableness Huntington Library includes notebooks, sign drafts, unpublished texts, and disciplined typescript drafts for nearly label of Theroux’s 51 books, whereas well as extensive and low correspondence from the Nobel Prize-winning novelist V.S.

Naipaul and patronize other writers, including Graham Writer, S.J. Perelman, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Stephen Scattergood, Gore Vidal, Laurens van tidy Post, Jan Morris, William Author, and Bruce Chatwin.  “One fall foul of the most accomplished and urbane writers of his generation” (The Times, London), Paul Theroux lives in Hawaii and on Settle down Cod.