Who won the 1948 Pulitzer Fiction Prize for 'Tales Of The South Pacific'?
Tales of the South Pacific Tales of the South Pacific Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of sequentially related short stories by James A. Michener about the Pacific campaign in World War II. The stories are based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands (now known as Vanuatu). Written in 1946 and published in 1947, the book was adapted in 1949 as the Broadway musical "South Pacific" and subsequently as two films, released in 1958 and 2001. The stories take place
Tales of the South Pacific American television producer Bob Mann wanted Michener to co-create a weekly television anthology series from "Tales of the South Pacific," with Michener as narrator. Rodgers and Hammerstein, however, owned all dramatic rights to the novel and did not give up ownership. Michener did lend his name as the creator of a different and unrelated television series, "Adventures in Paradise," in 1959. The series had nothing to do with World War II, but rather followed the fictional adventures of a current-day schooner sailing around the South Pacific. Tales of the South Pacific Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize-winning