Oswald A Bushnell

Oswald Andrew "Ozzy" Bushnell (1913-2002) was a microbiologist, historian, novelist, and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi. grew up in Hawaii and was the son of an Italian-Portuguese father and a Norwegian mother. Bushnell used his scientific background and love of Hawaii to write a popular collection of historic novels based in the islands.

His first novel The Return of Lono, which has an HNF background, won the Atlantic Monthly's fiction award in 1956, at a time when most books about Hawaii were written by outsiders.

 

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  The Return of Lono A novel is about Captain Cook's from the point of view of midshipman Forrest of the Resolution.

 

 

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