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Paul Micou
Paul Micou (born April 22, 1959) is an American novelist. Born in San Francisco, part of his childhood was spent in Turkey and Iran, as well as Washington, D.C., and Connecticut. After graduating from Harvard in 1981 he lived in Paris, and then moved to London in 1988. As of 2012, he was living in France with his wife and two sons. Paul Micou's first novel ''The Music Programme'' (1989) is a comic satire on the comfortable lifestyles of overpaid international development workers. Set in a fictional List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa, African country called Timbali, the novel was published to favourable reviews. ''The New York Times'' called it ''"an excellent, accomplished example"'' of satirical fiction and compared his comic talents to those of Evelyn Waugh and William Boyd (writer), William Boyd. This novel was composed as an opera by UK composer Roxanna Panufnik which premiered in 2000 at the Polish National Opera, Teatr Wielki, Warsaw. Novels Sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
