 Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold | | 26,851 (49,237) | 901 | 653 |  (3.69) | 91 | 0 | Paul Edward Theroux was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts and is an acclaimed travel writer. After attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst he joined the Peace Corps and taught in Malawi from 1963 to 1965. He also taught in Uganda at Makerere University and in Singapore at the University of Singapore. Although Theroux has also written travel books in general and about various modes of transport, his name is synonymous with the literature of train travel. Theroux's 1975 best-seller, The Great Railway Bazaar, takes the reader through Asia, while his second book about train travel, The Old Patagonian Express (1979), describes his trip from Boston to the tip of South America. His third contribution to the railway travel genre, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, won the Thomas Cook Prize for best literary travel book in 1989. His literary output also includes novels, books for children, short stories, articles, and poetry. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), which won the Whitbread Award and The Mosquito Coast (1981), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Theroux is a fellow of both the British Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographic Society. His title Lower River made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Currently his 2015 book, Deep South , is a bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) Paul Theroux is the distinguished author of numerous award-winning books, including "The Mosquito Coast," "Kowloon Tong," & "Half Moon Street." (Publisher Provided) — biography from The Great Railway Bazaar … (more) |
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Paul Theroux has 9 past events. (show)  The SAN FRANCISCO TRAVEL BOOK CLUB and LECTURE SERIES at Books Inc. in The Marina The SAN FRANCISCO TRAVEL BOOK CLUB and LECTURE SERIES will discuss The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux. Location: Books Inc. Street: 2251 Chestnut St City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound) The Mostly Fiction Book Club at Books Inc. Mountain View The MOSTLY FICTION BOOK CLUB GROUP will discuss The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari by Paul Theroux. Location: Books Inc. Street: 301 Castro St City: Mountain View, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)Paul Theroux - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star PAUL THEROUX Paul Theroux discusses Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar. Legendary travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux will discuss and sign his new book, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar. Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his clasic work, The Great Railway Bazaar. Theroux re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan and Siberia. In the three decades since, that world has undergone phenomenal change. And no one is better able to capture the texture, sights, smells and sounds of that changing landscape than Theroux. (bookjones)… (more) Paul Theroux - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
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