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JAMES A. MICHENER, pictured with his attractive
wife, Man, has just written a new love story, titled simply:
"Hawaii." The author calls it "a love story between me and
a bunch of islands." Hawaiian statehood made him change
his legal address from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Hon
olulu. The Mieheners live In an eight-story apartment
building at Wailcilci Beach.
Michener Writes Of His
Love Affair With Hawaii
HONOLULU Wi-James A. Mich
ener has just written a new love
Ftory. a monumental novel he calls
"a love story between me and a
bunch of islands.
For the author of "Tales of the
South Pacific" to write about
islands is scarcely news, but this
one is his biggest so far and he
has moved his locale ud o t h e
mid-Pacific, to the Hawaiian Is
lands.
His new book is titled simply:
Hawaii.
It runs 400,000 words, or
BOO pages.
"I think it is the best thing
l ve aone. says Michener. "Cer
tainly, it's the most ambitious
thing I ve done. I've been work
ing on it for ahout three years.
I started the final draft on .May
1st of last year and I worked on
it every day until last March 1st,
except, for a trip I made to San
rranciseo lor four days.
"It is a story of how Polynes
lans, missionaries, Chinese and Ja
panese came to these islands and
learned to live together side by
sioe. ne said.
"It has two climactic momenls
on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7
1941, and in the elections here in
1954 when the Democrats for the
first time in 5fi years came into
any kind of power, .
"I doubt if it can he seri?iized
or made into a movie. The char
acters are too numerous and they
change too fast.
"The underlying thread in the
book is the islands. They remain,
and the people change.
"I think it is a major work,
a real effort."
Michener, 52, wrote the book
his 121 h in a small office he
maintains in the same eight-story
apartment building at Waikiki
Beach where he lives with his
attractive wife, Mari.
"I got up at 7:30 every morn
ing." he related "ate a couple of
slices of pineapple, put on a pair
of shorts and went to work. I
admitted no interruptions. I have
no phone in my office. I really
went into an isolation chamber.
I worked until noon, then knocked
off. I never worked in the after
noon and only rarely in the eve
ning. In the afternoon, I went
beaching and I took a five mile
walk every day to keep my weight
4176 pounds) down."
"The purpose of the hook is to
explain why Hawaii is the won
dorful place it is. It deals with
how people and ideas got here and
how the people learned to live
logether in harmony. There are
four families, and the book fol
lows their fortunes.
"It would make a good movie
but I don't think it is suited for
it because it would take about
nine hours to show it.
Prior to writing "Hawaii," Mich
oner wrote four novels including
sayonara and "The Bridge at
roko-n, and seven works of non
fiction. "I mailed 'Hawaii' to mv ouh-
lishers on March 12 the dav the
Hawaii statehood bill was passed
by Congress, he said. I expect
it 10 ne published in October.
Statehood also made Michener
change his legal address from
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to
Honolulu. t-
"I have been here nuite a while. ''
he said, "but under no circum
stances would I have changed
my legal residence when 1 did
not have the vole 'for president)
On the day Hawaii got the vote,
1 cnanged it.
Michener has heen highly ac
live in local politics and there's
been talk in Democratic ranks of
asking him to run for office. So
far, he has resisted this.
I used to teach political sci
ence," Michener explained, "and
I am deeply interested in it. The
only function I see for myself is to
be an interested member m one
of the political parties. On the
day 1 moved my legal residence
here, I joined the Democratic party.
By and large, writers are
not logical people to run for office.
If you write and speak the truth.
you hurt enough feelings so that
you can't run for office. I have
no capacity for it. I will work
very hard to help other people."
cut, wnn Hawaii s first slate
elections coming this summer,
(here are some who think James
Michener may still run for office.
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