Paul Theroux

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Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films.

He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name. He is the father of British authors and documentary filmmakers Marcel Theroux and Louis Theroux, the brother of authors Alexander Theroux and Peter Theroux, and uncle of the American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux.

Early life

Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the third of seven children, and son of Catholic parents; his mother, Anne (née Dittami), was Italian American, and his father, Albert Eugene Theroux, was of French-Canadian descent. His mother was a former grammar school teacher and painter, and his father was a shoe factory leather salesman for the American Leather Oak company. Theroux was a Boy Scout and ultimately achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.

His brothers are Eugene, Alexander, Joseph and Peter. His sisters are Ann Marie and Mary.

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.

Personal life

His 2017 semi-autobiographical novel Mother Land (and an earlier related short story published in The New Yorker magazine and set in Puerto Rico) refer to an older son born from a college relationship; he and his unmarried partner are said to have given the boy up for adoption, though this individual apparently came back into his life at some point.

When Theroux was in Uganda, his friends found him a teaching position at Makerere University in Kampala. There he met Anne Castle, a British graduate student teaching at an upcountry girls' secondary school in Kenya, via Voluntary Service Overseas. They married in 1967. After leaving Asia and Dorset, they moved to South London, England in 1971, because it was cheaper than the United States. They had two sons: Marcel and Louis, both of whom are writers and documentarians. Theroux and Castle divorced in 1993.

Theroux married a second time to Sheila Donnelly, on November 18, 1995. His wife runs a luxury travel/hotel PR agency. They reside in Hawaii and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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Career

Theroux joined the Peace Corps in 1963 as a Malawi teacher after finishing his university education. In 1961, the Peace Corps had sent its first volunteers overseas, with a new strategy. Theroux helped a political rival of Prime Minister Hastings Banda flee to Uganda. Theroux was banned from Malawi and kicked out of the Peace Corps for this. He was named a non grata by Banda in Malawi for sympathizing with Yatu Chisiza. Jungle Lovers, a book about a failed coup attempt in the country, was banned in Malawi for many years as a result.

He went to Uganda in 1965 to teach English at Makerere University, where he also wrote for the magazine Transition. Theroux began his relationship with Rajat Neogy, the founder of Transition Magazine, and novelist V.S. When Makererere, theroux began his friendship with him. Naipaul was first a visiting scholar at the university, then a visiting scholar. During his stay in Uganda, an outraged crowd at a rally threatened to overturn the vehicle in which his pregnant wife was riding, and Theroux decided to leave Africa.

Marcel and his son were taken to Singapore, where a second son, Louis, was born. Theroux and his family landed in Singapore in November 1971 after two years of teaching at the National University of Singapore. They lived in Dorset first and then in south London. Theroux returned to the United States, where he has since settled after his marriage ended in 1990.

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