James Michener
James Michener, spurned by many but read by millions, died on October 16th, aged 90
About 2,000 years ago at a village in Judaea, one of the smaller of the provinces that made up the mighty Roman empire . . .” So begins “Millennium”, or might have done, had James Michener decided to seize the moment and write a history of the past 20 centuries in the form of a popular novel of, say, 1,400 pages.
This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “James Michener”
Obituary November 1st 1997
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