James A. Michener, a Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist who wrote nearly 50 books in his lifetime, had a life-long love of travel and Raffles Hotel. He began his love affair with the Hotel, in 1949 after serving in the South Pacific with the US Navy.

He was later to reminisce in his eighties, “To have been young and had a room at Raffles was life at its best”.

A special feature of the James Michener suite is a collection of his literary works for residents’ reading pleasure, a specially selected antique sixty-year old colonial-style three-piece pedestrial teak desk with a leather top and matching chair which is similar to the desk on which he would have written his Pulitzer-prize winning novel, “Tales of the South Pacific” in the 1940s; as well as two portraits of him, one featuring him at the Hotel, the other in Singapore’s Chinatown.