![]() ![]() Riding The Iron Rooster BY TRAIN THROUGH CHINA by Most of his books are published by Penguin. Paul Theroux's many books includeThe Black House The Great Railway Bazaar The Family Arsenal Picture Palace, which won the 1978 Whitbread Literary Award The Old Patagonian Express World's End The Mosquito Coast, which was the 1981Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was also made into a feature film The London Embassy The Kingdom by the Sea Sunrise with Sea-monsters O-Zone Riding the Iron Rooster, which won the 1988 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award My Secret History Chicago Loop The Happy Isles of Oceania Millroy the Magician The Pillars of Hercules andMy Other Life: A Novel. Paul Theroux has now returned to the United States, but he continues to travel widely. 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 bookTravelling the World (Penguin, 1992). He was a resident in Britain for a total of seventeen years. ![]() In the early 1970s Paul Theroux moved with his wife and two children to Dorset, where he wroteSaint Jack, and then on to London. Among these wereFong and the Indians, Girls at Play andJungle Lovers, all of which appear in one volume, On the Edge of the Great Rift (Penguin, 1996). ![]() Throughout this time, he was publishing short stories and journalism, and he wrote a number of novels. In 1968 he joined the University of Singapore and taught in the Department of English for three years. 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. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Paul Theroux was born and educated in the United States. ![]()
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