Paul Edward Theroux (/ θ ə ˈ r uː /; [2] born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films.

Dec 11, 2024 · Paul Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer known for his highly personal observations on many locales. His works include the novels The Mosquito Coast (1982) and Under the Wave at Waimea (2021) and the travel books The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) and Deep South (2015).

Paul Theroux (‘The world’s most perceptive travel writer’--Daily Mail) is the author of many highly acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Great Railway Bazaa r (1975), The Mosquito Coast (1981) Riding the Iron Rooster (1983), and Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories (2014).

Jan 31, 2025 · Our review of Paul Theroux's latest book, "The Vanishing Point." The titular gem that begins Paul Theroux’s latest and perhaps last collection of stories, The Vanishing Point, is about a guy named Guy.

List of works by or about Paul Theroux, American novelist, short story writer and travel writer. Novels. Waldo. 1967. Fong and the Indians (1968) Girls at Play (1969) Murder in Mount Holly (1969) Jungle Lovers (1971) Saint Jack (1973) The …

Jun 14, 2018 · Paul Theroux is the godfather of contemporary travel writing, known for his transporting, first-person classics such as Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Deep South, The Tao...

Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today’s brutal headlines.

Paul Theroux has 245 books on Goodreads with 406658 ratings. Paul Theroux’s most popular book is The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia.

May 18, 2018 · Paul Theroux (born 1941) was an expatriate American writer of numerous works of fiction and of the chronicles of his own travels by train throughout the world. He was a keen observer of the relationships between people and their environments.

Nov 21, 2024 · Half a century after his first visit, Paul Theroux looks back on a lifetime of adventures in Burma, now Myanmar, which featured in two of his classic travelogues — and inspired his latest novel The author — who, it’s fair to say, reinvented travel writing as an art form — on the road in the early 1980s.