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}} Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps ''The Great Railway Bazaar'' (1975). He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel ''The Mosquito Coast'' on which the 1986 movie is based. He is the father of British authors and documentary makers Louis Theroux and Marcel Theroux, the brother of authors Alexander Theroux and Peter Theroux, and uncle of the American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux. ==Early life== Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of Catholic parents; his mother, Anne (née Dittami), was Italian American, and his father, Albert Eugene Theroux, was French-Canadian. His mother was a grammar school teacher and his father was a salesman for the American Leather Oak company.〔()〕〔()〕 Theroux was a Boy Scout and ultimately achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. Theroux was educated at Medford High School, followed by the University of Maine, in Orono (1959–60) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he obtained a B.A. in English in 1963. After he finished his university education, Theroux joined the Peace Corps in 1963 as a teacher in Malawi. A new program, the Peace Corps had sent its first volunteers overseas in 1961. While there, Theroux helped a political opponent of Prime Minister Hastings Banda escape to Uganda. For this Theroux was expelled from Malawi and thrown out of the Peace Corps. He was declared ''persona non grata'' by Banda in Malawi for sympathizing with Yatuta Chisiza.〔http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2000/0003/prntvers003/pv003pchist.html〕 As a consequence, his later novel ''Jungle Lovers'', which concerns an attempted coup in the country, was banned in Malawi for many years. He then moved to Uganda to teach at Makerere University, where he wrote for the magazine, ''Transition''. While at Makerere, Theroux began his friendship with novelist V. S. Naipaul, then a visiting scholar at the university.〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3672064/Patrick-Frenchs-biography-of-VS-Naipaul-Naipauls-friendship-with-Paul-Theroux.html〕 During his time in Uganda, an angry mob at a demonstration threatened to overturn the car in which his pregnant wife was riding. This incident may have contributed to his decision to leave Africa. He moved again to Singapore. After two years of teaching at the National University of Singapore, he settled in the United Kingdom, first in Dorset, and then in south London with his wife and two young children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Theroux」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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