Paul Theroux
AUTHOR

Paul Theroux

Literature & Fiction | Travel & Tourism | Politics & Social Sciences
Paul Theroux was born and educated in the United States. After graduating from university in 1963, he travelled first to Italy and then to Africa, where he worked as a Peace Corps teacher at a bush school in Malawi, and as a lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda. In 1968 he joined the University of Singapore and taught in the Department of English for three years. Throughout this time he was publishing short stories and journalism, and wrote a number of novels. Among these were Fong and the Indians, Girls at Play and Jungle Lovers, all of which appear in one volume, On the Edge of the Great Rift (Penguin, 1996). In the early 1970s Paul Theroux moved with his wife and two children to Dorset, where he wrote Saint Jack, and then on to London. He was a resident in Britain for a total of seventeen years. In this time he wrote a dozen volumes of highly praised fiction and a number of successful travel books, from which a selection of writings were taken to compile his book Travelling the World (Penguin, 1992). Paul Theroux has now returned to the United States, but he continues to travel widely. Paul Theroux's many books include Picture Palace, which won the 1978 Whitbread Literary Award; The Mosquito Coast, which was the 1981 Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was also made into a feature film; Riding the Iron Rooster, which won the 1988 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; The Pillars of Hercules, shortlisted for the 1996 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; My Other Life: A Novel, Kowloon Tong, Sir Vidia's Shadow, Fresh-air Fiend and Hotel Honolulu. Blindness is his latest novel. Most of his books are published by Penguin.
Read more Read less
You're getting a free audiobook.

You're getting a free audiobook.

$14.95 per month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Try Audible Premium Plus free

Best Sellers

  • The Bad Angel Brothers Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $31.93 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $31.93 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • The Great Railway Bazaar Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $21.31 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.31 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • The Mosquito Coast Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $25.81 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.81 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Under the Wave at Waimea Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $44.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $44.49 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $31.97 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $31.97 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Kingdom by the Sea Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $32.87 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $32.87 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction Audiobook By Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, Aldous Huxley, Joyce Carol Oats, Philip Roth

    Regular price: $17.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.95 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Figures in a Landscape Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $27.27 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $27.27 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Hotel Honolulu Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $29.37 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $29.37 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • El viejo expreso de la Patagonia [The Old Patagonian Express] Audiobook By Paul Theroux, Juan Gabriel López Guix - tra

    Regular price: $16.06 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $16.06 or 1 credit

    Pre-order: Free with 30-day trial
  • Sunrise with Seamonsters,Pt.1 Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $27.97 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $27.97 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Fresh Air Fiend Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $39.87 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $39.87 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • The Old Patagonian Express Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $27.81 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $27.81 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Hotel Honolulu Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $28.41 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $28.41 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Half Moon Street Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $36.37 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $36.37 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Under the Wave at Waimea Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $34.90 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $34.90 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • The Last Train to Zona Verde Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $23.12 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $23.12 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Millroy the Magician Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $24.47 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.47 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Camp Echo Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $5.24 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $5.24 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial
  • Deep South Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

    Regular price: $32.32 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $32.32 or 1 credit

    Free with 30-day trial

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Visit Amazon Author Central