Paul Michael Books in Order

Paul Michael was an established author and editor of illustrated reference works focused on American film and television history. His collaborator James Robert Parish identifies him as the writer contracted for a major American-movie reference project.

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No. The film-reference Paul Michael is the author credited in mid-century library records, while Macmillan profiles a different Paul Michael born and raised in Vancouver who worked as an actor and audiobook narrator.

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His documented subjects included American cinema, movie personnel and awards, television awards, and professional football. Library records describe his film reference work as covering film history, casts, credits, and awards, and separately catalog a football book under his name.

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The available biographical record attributes recognition to a book rather than documenting a personal award: James Robert Parish states that The American Movies Reference Book won an American Library Association prize. The source does not identify a separate individual award received by Michael.

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The evidence points to a legacy as an early compiler and editor who helped make film and television history accessible through substantial illustrated reference books. A contemporary Television Quarterly review described his Emmy reference volume as unusually informative and valuable to an industry with little comparable documentation in print.

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