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Lancastrian (iou) and Michener, James A(lbert) (sh)


Lancastrian (iou)



Lancastrian noun & adjective. M16.
[from Lancaster a city in NW England, formerly the county town of Lancashire + -IAN.]
Hist. (An adherent or supporter) of the family descended from John of Gaunt (1340-99), Duke of Lancaster, fourth son of Edward III, esp. in the Wars of the Roses. Cf. YORKIST. M16.
(A native or inhabitant) of Lancaster or Lancashire in NW England. L18.

Michener, James A(lbert) (sh)




born Feb. 3, 1907?, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died Oct. 16, 1997, Austin, Texas

U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Michener was a foundling discovered in Doylestown, Pa., and he was raised as a Quaker. From 1944 to 1946 he was a naval historian in the South Pacific, the setting of his early Fiction; his Tales of the South Pacific (1947, Pulitzer Prize) was adapted as the Broadway musical South Pacific (1949; Film, 1958). He is best known for epic and detailed novels drawing on extensive research, including Hawaii (1959; Film, 1966), Iberia (1968), Centennial (1974), Chesapeake (1978), Space (1982), and Mexico (1992).