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The Secrets Behind The Writing Of The Covenant

A Day At Work With James A. Michener

Lessons In Writing With James A. Michener

What Life Was Like At Reader's Digest In The Great Days

Talking With Michener About Shaka Zulu And His Tribe

The Strange Genesis of James Michener's Novel, The Covenant

Plotting Notes For A James Michener Novel

How A Writer Gets Ideas For A Novel - Inside James Michener's Covenant

Writing The Outline For James Michener's South African Novel

On The Road With Michener In South Africa

Why Did Michener Meet With No Blacks In Apartheid South Africa?

How A James Michener Novel Was Researched

Fixing Fundamental Flaws In A Michener Manuscript

Why James Michener And His Collaborator Argued Violently

Challenging Michener's Vision Of The Afrikaners

How A Boer Girl Helped Michener On The Covenant

Anglo-Boer War - Memories Of A Concentration Camp Survivor

How Black Moses Found The Village Of Heaven In Michener's Covenant

From One Writer To Another - An Ominous Letter From James A. Michener

 

Assignment Notes:

Manuscript Drafts For The Cattle Killing And The Englishman

Plotting Notes:

Original Plot Notes and Outline by Errol Lincoln Uys for The Covenant

Research Notes:

The Promised Land of South Africa - Limitless or Horizonless?

The Trekboers of South Africa

The Voortrekkers of South Africa

Manuscript Notes:

Drafts for The Zulu Mfecane - The Crushing

Drafts for Voortrekkers - Dashing Harry Smith

Drafts for Anglo-Boer War - The Venloo Commando

Uys Plotting Notes For The Puritan - Detleef Van Doorn

Drafts For Moses Nxumalo's Story

Barbara Helly - Thesis On The Covenant

Michener's Books

Michener: A Writer's Journey

Brazil

MICHENER BOOKSHELF

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