James Michener's Death
Born (Birthday) February 3, 1907
Death Date October 16, 1997
Age of Death 90 years
Cause of Death Renal Failure
Profession Novelist
The novelist James Michener died at the age of 90. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
World traveler and author who wrote Tales of the South Pacific, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948. His other literary works include The Fires of Spring, The Drifters, Chesapeake, and Caravans.
He was adopted and raised by Mabel Michener, a Pennsylvania Quaker woman. After divorcing his first two wives (Patti Koon and Vange Noord), he married his third wife, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, in 1955.
Michener, a master of the epic historical novel and one of America’s best-known and most successful writers during a prolific 50-year career, died Thursday at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 90. The cause of death was renal failure.