Theroux was natural within Medford, Massachusetts. When he finished his university education, he joined a Peace Corps and taught in Malawi. When working there, he helped the political opponent of Hastings Banda escape to Uganda, for which he was expelled from Malawi & discarded of the Peace Corps. He so moved to Uganda to teach at Makerere University there. When you took his tenure at Makerere University, Theroux began his trinity-decade friendly relationship by owning novelist V.S. Naipaul, then a visiting scholar at the university. While Uganda under Idi Amin became an unpleasant place to live, he moved once more to Singapore.

His number one novel, Waldo, was published during his instance within Uganda & was moderately successful. He published many additional novels above a next pack years including Fong & a Indians & Jungle Lovers.

He moved to London in 1972 before setting off on an epic poem journeying by train from either Great Britain to Japan and back again. His account of this journeying wwhen published as A Dandy Railway Bazaar, his foremost major profits as a travel writer. He has since written the total of more travel books, including descriptions of surpass train from either Boston to Argentina (The Old Patagonian Express), camping China (Riding a Iron Rooster), & travelling from either Cairo to Cape Town (Dark Star Safari). when the traveler he is noted for his rich descriptions of humans & stores, tied sustaining a heavily streak of irony typically attributed as misanthropy. More non-nonfictional prose by Theroux includes ''Sir Vidia's Shadow, an account of his household & agent friendly relationship by using Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul that ended abruptly after thirty years.

His novel Doctor Slaughter was made into the film, Half Moon Street (1986), starring Michael Caine and Sigourney Weaver, which received bad reviews from film critics. The Mosquito Coast was also processed into the film of the equivalent title (1986), directed by Peter Weir, and starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix. It received the further caring reception. Chinese Pack'' (1997), a film just about a British handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, credits Theroux as a source for the story, based on themes he explores in his 1997 novel Kowloon Tong.

Theroux presently sleep in Hawaii. He was married to Anne Castle 4 December 1967 (separated in 1991, divorced 1993). He is presently married to Sheila Donnelly (since November 18 1995). He has ii sons by owning Anne Castle - writer & television presenter Marcel Theroux, and television presenter Louis Theroux.

List of novels

List of non-fiction books

The Peachy Railway Bazaar (1975) The Old Patagonian Express (1979) The Kingdom Per Sea (1983) Sailing Across China Sunrise By using Seamonsters (1985) The Imperial Way Riding A Cast-iron Cock (1988) To A Finishes Of The Earth The Happy Isles Of Oceania (1992) The Pillars Of Hercules Sir Vidia's Shadow (1998) Fresh Air Fiend Dark Star Safari