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Anton Myrer

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November 03, 1922 in Worchester, Massachusetts, The United States

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January 19, 1996

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Anton Myrer, who died of leukemia in 1996, was a best-selling author whose themes were America's loss of innocence and the use and abuse of power. He is particularly remembered for The Last Convertible (1978), a summation of the American experience during and after World War II, and for Once an Eagle (1968), which traces the life of a regular Army officer and his family from before World War I to Vietnam. Orville Prescott, in The New York Times wrote of Once an Eagle: "Myrer is a superb story teller....who cares about the narrative and is a master." The Army War College Foundation, which is republishing the novel this year, describes it as "a perceptive study of the profession of arms an a chilling overview of armed conflict... Myrer forces...more Anton Myrer, who died of leukemia in 1996, was a best-selling author whose themes were America's loss of innocence and the use and abuse of power. He is particularly remembered for The Last Convertible (1978), a summation of the American experience during and after World War II, and for Once an Eagle (1968), which traces the life of a regular Army officer and his family from before World War I to Vietnam. Orville Prescott, in The New York Times wrote of Once an Eagle: "Myrer is a superb story teller....who cares about the narrative and is a master." The Army War College Foundation, which is republishing the novel this year, describes it as "a perceptive study of the profession of arms an a chilling overview of armed conflict... Myrer forces us to smell and feel the battlefield as well as hear and see it."

Myrer also wrote Evil Under the Sun (1951); The Big War (1957), of which one critic wrote, "I doubt if it is possible to come much closer... to an American War and Peace"; The Violent Shore, (1962); The Intruder: A Novel of Boston (1965); The Tiger Waits (1973); and A Green Desire (1981). The Library has copies of all eight novels in much-read first editions and, in the case of six of the eight, in leather-bound volumes recently donated by Mrs. Myrer.

Born in Worchester, Massachusetts, Myrer grew up in the Berkshires, Cape Cod, and Beacon Hill -- all settings for his novels. A 1941 graduate of Boston Latin School, he interrupted his education at Harvard after Pearl Harbor to enlist in the Marine Corps and spent more than three years in the Pacific. He rose to the rank of corporal, took part in the invasion of Guam, and was wounded. He returned to graduate from Harvard magna cum laude and subsequently lived on the Cape, in Portugal, and at the time of his death, in upstate New York where he received books by mail from the Library

All who have read Myrer's novels know the strength and passion of his moral vision.

by Barbara H. Stanton

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Average rating: 4.16 · 1136 ratings · 159 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Once An Eagle 433 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 1968 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Last Convertible 418 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 1978 — 13 editions	My rating:
	A Green Desire by Anton Myrer, Alastair Westgarth (Foreword by) 365 avg rating — 49 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Big War 389 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Intruder 260 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1965 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Tiger Waits; A Novel 400 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Once an Eagle (Part 2 of a 2-Part Cassette Edition) (Library) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Once an Eagle (Part 1 of a 2-Part Cassette Edition )(Library) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir by Cheri Register, Anton Myrer 342 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Johnstown Flood; Once an Eagle; Ammie, Come Home; Gone: A Trio of Short Stories; Sarang (Reader's Digest Condensed Books Vol 4, 1968) by Roger A. Caras, Rumer Godden, Barbara Michaels 300 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968	My rating:

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