''My Lost Mexico'' (
1992
File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
) is a nonfiction account by American author
James A. Michener
James Albert Michener ( or ; February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and ...
about his endeavor to write a big novel about Mexico in the grand style of his other popular novels like ''
Hawaii''. Michener relates the long journey of a novel which he had begun writing early in his career but had abandoned, and the manuscript had ultimately been lost. Its discovery 30 years later led to the 1992 bestseller ''
Mexico''. ''My Lost Mexico'' also includes the never-before published novella ''The Texas Girls''.
1992 non-fiction books
Books by James A. Michener
Books about Mexico
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