James Michener Death Cause and Date

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.