1. Paul Theroux - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Theroux

Paul Theroux From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10 ) is an American travel writer and novelist , whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan , and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travel writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast Contents Biography Literary work Controversy Film adaptations ... edit Biography Theroux was born in Medford Massachusetts , the son of Catholic parents, a French-Canadian father and an Italian mother. His French last name originates from the region around Sarthe and Yonne in France. It is quite common in Francophone countries and is originally spelled Th©roux. After he finished his university education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , he joined the Peace Corps and taught in Malawi from 1963 to 1965. While working there, he helped a political opponent of

2. Featured Author: Paul Theroux Paul Theroux Reviews Paul Schneider s The Enduring Shore (2000) Schneider s book falls within Paul Theroux Changing Publishers After 20 Years (1985) http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/specials/theroux.html

Featured Author: Paul Theroux With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times In This Feature Reviews of Paul Theroux's Earlier Books Articles by Paul Theroux Articles About Paul Theroux Recent Link Sven Birkerts Reviews 'Hotel Honolulu' (May 13, 2001) Theo Westenberger/ Houghton Mifflin REVIEWS OF PAUL THEROUX'S EARLIER BOOKS: Fong and the Indians ". . . a pleasant enough book, cleanly written in a style which rather resembles Graham Greene's lighter manner. . . . [M]uch of the novel's pleasantness arises from an odd lack of urgency, an absence of bite." Girls at Play "The book is very convincing. The punctilious realism of the details, the strange, haunting ubiquity of the African landscape, the plausibility of characters divested of the straitjackets of their own conventional worlds, are lessons in a course in the high cost of sudden social change." Jungle Lovers "There is so much that is admirable in the novel, and deeply-felt; it distresses me to have to say that I, for one, found it ultimately unsatisfying. Forced in the ideological hothouse. Even so, 'Jungle Lovers' abounds with virtues." Saint Jack "The very great merit of this novel is that the master-play of language serves to define an area of silence at the heart of the percussions that are deafening us."

3. Paul Theroux Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1941 and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967. His subsequent novels include The Family Arsenal, http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=1043

4. An Interview With Paul Theroux Paul Theroux talks about his novel Kowloon Tong in the aftermath of the British handover of Hong Kong to China. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ptint.htm

"All Change is Fascinating" Paul Theroux talks about his novel, Kowloon Tong , and the implications of the Hong Kong handover July 3, 1997 "S tyle is not very important, style's nothing really," V. S. Naipaul once told Paul Theroux. "But a book needs a reason for being written." Theroux took his West Indian mentor's advice to heart a long time ago, but nowhere is his reason for writing a book more evident than in his most recent novel, Kowloon Tong . Set in the waning days of British imperial rule, with China preparing to take back Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong attempts to capture the soul of the city that has been in the news so much of late. Theroux's connection with The Atlantic goes back to the 1960s. Beginning in 1968 and continuing through 1979, Theroux wrote ten pieces (short stories and reports) for the magazine. Drawn from his extensive experiences in East Africa and Asia, Theroux reported, often with characteristically dry and acidic wit, on the characters hard-drinking soldiers of fortune, aging expatriates, bored diplomats and their discontented wives, jaded foreign correspondents, anglicized Orientals, idealistic young Americans that he had come across in his travels. Theroux is a prolific writer: he has written more than forty books and has published articles and short stories in a variety of major newspapers and magazines. And he seems to show no signs of slowing down; in 1995 he published

5. Paul Theroux --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Paul Theroux American novelist and travel writer known for his highly personal observations on many locales. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9072096/Paul-Theroux

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6. Paul Theroux Paul Theroux AKA Paul Edward Theroux. Born 10Apr-1941 Birthplace Medford, MA. Gender Male Race or Ethnicity White Sexual orientation Straight http://www.nndb.com/people/194/000113852/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Paul Theroux AKA Paul Edward Theroux Born: 10-Apr Birthplace: Medford, MA Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Mosquito Coast Wife: Anne Castle (m. 4-Dec-1967, div. 1993, two sons) Son: Marcel Theroux (journalist) Son: Louis Theroux (TV personality/author, b. 20-May-1970) Wife: Sheila Donnelly (m. 18-Nov-1995) University: University of Massachusetts (1963) Peace Corps Volunteer in Nyasaland (1963) Author of books: Waldo , novel) Fong And The Indians , novel) Murder In Mount Holly , novel) Girls At Play , novel) Jungle Lovers , novel) Sinning With Annie , novel) Saint Jack , novel) The Black House , novel) The Great Railway Bazaar , travelogue) The Family Arsenal , novel) The Consul's File , novel) Picture Palace , novel) A Christmas Card , novel) The Old Patagonian Express , travelogue) London Snow: A Christmas Story , novel) World's End and Other Stories , short stories) The Mosquito Coast , novel) The London Embassy , novel) Half Moon Street , novel) O-Zone , novel) The White Man's Burden , novel) My Secret History , novel) Chicago Loop , novel) The Happy Isles of Oceania , travelogue) Millroy The Magician , novel) The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean , travelogue) My Other Life , novel) Kowloon Tong , novel) Hotel Honolulu , novel) Nurse Wolf And Dr. Sacks

7. Lyceum Agency - Speakers - Paul Theroux Paul Theroux is described by writer and friend Jonathan Raban as “utterly American, possessing all of those democratic, Yankee, can do qualities. http://www.lyceumagency.com/paul theroux.aspx

8. Paul Theroux - Authors - Books - Fine Arts - News Have you read any Paul Theroux? One of the American writer s more recent novels is Kowloon Tong , a story about a fortysomething Brit who has lived all his http://www.wikio.com/fine_arts/books/authors/paul_theroux

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10. Paul Theroux - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times A biography and related information about Paul Theroux. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1228746/Paul-Theroux

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Paul Theroux From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10 ) is an American travel writer and novelist. Contents Sourced The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) The Old Patagonian Express (1979) External links ... edit Sourced Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. New York Times (July 28, 1976) Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Observer (London, October 7, 1979) The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate’s career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. Tarzan Is an Expatriate , quoted in Patrick Marnham's Dispatches from Africa , ch. 1 (1981) “Mustn’t grumble” was the most English of expressions. English patience was mingled inertia and despair. What was the use? But Americans did nothing but grumble! Americans also boasted. “I do some pretty incredible things” was not an English expression. “I’m fairly keen” was not American. Americans were showoffs—it was part of our innocence—we often fell on our faces; the English seldom showed off, so they seldom looked like fools. The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain , ch. 1 (1983)

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NONFICTION The Great Railway Bazaar The Old Patagonian Express The Kingdom By The Sea Sailing Through China ... TBA FICTION Waldo Fong And The Indians Murder In Mount Holly Girls At Play ... CONTACT Welcome to Paul Theroux.com the web's first and only fan site dedicated to the travel and fiction writer, Paul Theroux. Although I have no link to the author, I will be happy to try and answer any questions and I welcome any comments or information you might be able to add. Please direct all emails to Erinn@paultheroux.com or fill out my online form Our book of the month is The Great Railway Bazaar To find out more about the book, either visit the The Great Railway Bazaar page of the site or discuss it in the forum Thank you to everyone who participated in the quiz. The three winners of the contest are listed here . Congratulations to the winners. Looking for a rare Paul Theroux book? I have acquired 88 books from Theroux's own library- For more info please email Erinn@paultheroux.com

14. Salon: Paul Theroux An interview with the author, from the Salonmagazine.com website. http://www.salon.com/weekly/interview960902.html

Paul Theroux, like most writers, is far uglier in person than he is in photographs. For one thing, there's the matter of his bluntly-cut toupee, which tilts noticeably from side to side as he shifts in his chair. For another, there are Theroux's teeth, which are so badly stained they seem to be carved from the driftwood that dots the nearby Cape Cod shoreline. Never mind his unpleasant habit of hacking up massive gobs of phlegm, which he then expectorates into the Persian carpet at his visitor's feet. None of this is true, of course. I've never met Paul Theroux, and have no reason to believe that he wears a toupee, or has rotten teeth, or likes to spit into his carpet. But he has encouraged me, over the course of several telephone conversations, to make things up about him. The truth ends here.

15. Powells.com Interviews - Paul Theroux The World According to paul theroux Dave Weich, Powells.com Of the fifty travelrelated essays, articles, and book reviews in Fresh Air Fiend, http://www.powells.com/authors/theroux.html

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16. Quotes: Paul Theroux Quotes from paul theroux. theroux, paul, The happy isles of Oceania. Paddling the Pacific. New York (G.P. Putnam s Son), 1992, 361 http://www.ldb.org/theroux.htm

This site is being preserved as it was on 17 September 2001 as a memorial to the life and work of Eberhard Wenzel. The public health virtual library is now updated and hosted by the UNSW School of Public Health. Paul Theroux Last updated: 23 December 1998 Is there a Japanese smile that does not seem like an expression of pain? Theroux, Paul, The happy isles of Oceania. Paddling the Pacific. New York (G.P. Putnam's Son), 1992, 361 The Samoans remained hospitable as long as someone else paid their bills. They sat by the littered lagoon, cooling their bellies, and eating. Samoa had become part of the American family and was content. Samoans were generally unenthusiastic, but similarly they were uncomplaining, and this little-brown-brother relationship would continue as long as America fed them and paid for their pleasures. Theroux, Paul, The happy isles of Oceania. Paddling the Pacific. New York (G.P. Putnam's Son), 1992, 359 It is almost axiomatic that as soon as a place gets a reputation for being paradise it goes to hell. Theroux, Paul, The happy isles of Oceania. Paddling the Pacific. New York (G.P. Putnam's Son), 1992, 370

17. BookPage Interview May 2000: Paul Theroux Midway through our conversation about Fresh Air Fiend, paul theroux reminds me that during the 15 years in which he wrote the 49 travel essays and articles http://www.bookpage.com/0005bp/paul_theroux.html

Fresh Air Fiend By Paul Theroux Houghton Mifflin, $27 ISBN 0618034064 Buy or borrow this book! Support your local independent bookseller Find it in a WorldCat library Compare prices at major online bookstores Look who's talking in BookPage! Dave Barry Ben Bova Helen Gurley Brown Larry Brown ... Andrew Weil Children's Authors Arlene Alda Graeme Base John Bemelmans Marciano Stan and Jan Berenstain ... Lori Aurelia Williams Paul Theroux: A truthful traveler with a sense of discovery INTERVIEW BY ALDEN MUDGE Midway through our conversation about Fresh Air Fiend , Paul Theroux reminds me that during the 15 years in which he wrote the 49 travel essays and articles collected here, he also wrote a major book on China (Riding the Iron Rooster), three additional travel books, a controversial memoir about his friendship with V.S. Naipaul (In Sir Vidia's Shadow), and more than a handful of novels (including My Secret History, Millroy the Magician, and Kowloon Tong). Something like a dozen books in all. "It's not that I was writing these pieces with my left hand," Theroux says, "but I was doing other things at the same time. These pieces illuminate those books, and those books derive somewhat from the experiences recorded here. There's a certain synchronicity in writing travel pieces and also living my life as a novelist and a travel writer." This is disheartening. You'd expect perhaps even hope that there'd be a significant decline in quality in these occasional pieces, written over the years for publications as varied as Outside magazine, The New York Times, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. And, no doubt, readers will have their favorites and less favorites among them. But in each of the pieces collected in

18. Paul Theroux Quotes - The Quotations Page paul theroux; Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a paul theroux; Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Paul_Theroux/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Paul Theroux (1941 - ) US novelist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. Paul Theroux Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. Paul Theroux Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. Paul Theroux in The Washington Post - More quotations on: [ Travel Search for Paul Theroux at Amazon.com Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total Previous Author: Charlize Theron Next Author: Phyllis Theroux Return to Author List Browse our complete list of 3141 authors by last name: A B C D ... Z (c) 1994-2007 QuotationsPage.com and Michael Moncur Please read the

19. Paul Theroux Writer The Mosquito Coast. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857623/

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20. Paul Theroux : The Mosquito Coast : O-Zone : Book Review Recommended fiction The Mosquito Coast and Ozone by paul theroux. Site includes review and links to his bibliography, related tid-bits, interviews and http://www.mostlyfiction.com/contemp/theroux.htm

skip to: page content links on this page site navigation footer (site information) Mostly Fiction BOOK REVIEWS all authors all titles newsletter home ... Author Info Paul Theroux Author's Bibliography Book Marks About the Author MOSTLYFICTION.COM BOOKSHELF: Contemporary NEXT AUTHOR ... Louis Auchincloss: East Side Story READ MORE ... Joanna Scott: Tourmaline Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove Peter Duffy: The Bielski Brothers Amazon Gift Certificates If you find this site helpful please consider recommending it to your friends or place a link at your site to MostlyFiction.com. Thank you for Supporting MostlyFiction.com! West Indies Botanical II Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Jump over to a review of Dark Star Safari Jump down to read a review of ... O-Zone "The Mosquito Coast" (Reviewed by Judi Clark APR 10, 1999) Allie Fox is sick of the fast foods, television, crime, bad workmanship, and cheap imports. He is interested in the lifestyle of the Central American migrant workers who work for his boss and thus he decides that the answer is to start a new life in the jungles of Honduras. Fox moves his wife and four children from Hatfield, Massachusetts to a remote overgrown clearing on the Mosquito Coast, which he believes is untainted by the modern world. The story is told from the view point of his son Charlie, who admires his father for "not settling for any average Crusoe sort of living." Father builds a solid house (by going down to the beach to collect what is washed in from the world), has running water, toilet and laundry. Once this monumental task is complete, he decides to give a gift to the natives - ice. So he builds a monstrous machine out of old pipes to turn "fire into ice." Naturally, Allie Fox's actions are full of contradictions. Never mind his premise that this is a untainted region of the world. He soon finds that the natives know about ice and worse - Christianity. What works so well in this story is that it is told through the eyes of Charlie. Children naturally believe in their parents, but at the same time they have their own inner sense.

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