The Adoptee Who Made the World His Home
<p>The typewriter looks exactly as it should: simple, smooth, and gray. There’s nothing special about this Olympia De Luxe; any secretary pool in the 1960s was full of such machines. It stands on an unremarkable writing desk, protected by a wall of glass.</p>
<p>Which is all fitting, because James A. Michener wasn’t a flashy writer. You’d be hard-pressed to find him in a crowd, even if you knew what he looked like.</p>
<p>“Very early on in life,” he once said, “I decided the hell with it, material things weren’t for me. Christmas would come and other kids would have all these presents and it wouldn’t bother me a bit.”</p>
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