![]() ![]() In recalling his heady trip, the author expresses only one fittingly wry comment: ``This is rather out of proportion. Poland is a 1983 historical fiction novel by James Michener. He taught for many years and was an editor for Macmillan Publishing Company. from Colorado State College of Education, and an M.A. Traveling with an entourage of nine, which included industrialist Edward Piszek and former baseball star Stan Musial, Polish-Americans, Michener seems to have been so feted as to make him lose his well-known modesty: `` Poland has accomplished so much good that it constitutes a kind of national treasure, whose merit could be duplicated by nothing else.'' The last stop on the pilgrimage was to clerical Rome, with Michener, a Quaker, receiving communion in the Pope's chapel from ``John Pawel Drugi'' himself. Michener, 1907 - 1997 James Albert Michener was born on Februin Doylestown, Pa. ![]() Michener's memoir of a recent trip to Poland and Rome is as witless as a postcard, its greeting something like ``Having a wonderful time, you won't believe the fuss being made over me.'' The visit to Poland-Michener's 14th-was occasioned by a government invitation to receive a friendship medal as the author of the novel Poland. ![]()
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