Jeffrey Meyers
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Hemingway: A Biography
20 editions
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1982
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Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy
11 editions
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1992
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Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
20 editions
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1994
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Modigliani: A Life
6 editions
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2006
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Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation
14 editions
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2000
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The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
11 editions
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2009
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Gary Cooper, American Hero,
12 editions
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1998
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Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius Of Manet And Morisot, Degas And Cassatt
4 editions
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2005
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Somerset Maugham: A Life
8 editions
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2004
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Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam
3 editions
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2002
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“Samuel Johnson once explained how alcohol compensated for sexual deprivation. When asked what he thought was the greatest pleasure in life, he replied: “Fucking; and the second was drinking. And therefore he wondered why there were not more drunkards, for all could drink tho’ not all could fuck.”
― Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
― Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
“In October 1845—while still enjoying the popularity of “The Raven,” his Tales and his numerous public lectures—Poe was invited to read an original poem before the Boston Lyceum for a fee of fifty dollars. James Russell Lowell had secured this invitation, despite Poe’s recent attack on him. Poe had mixed feelings about Boston, which had played a significant role in his life. He had been born in poverty in Boston while his parents had been on tour; had fled there from Richmond after quarreling with John Allan; had enlisted and served his first months in the army there; had published his first volume, “By a Bostonian,” there; he had criticized the integrity of one of their most prominent authors in the “Longfellow War”; and had for many years conducted a running battle in the literary reviews with the puritanical and provincial New England Transcendentalists. Boston, for Poe, was enemy territory. But he entered it with reckless audacity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy
― Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy
“explained the genesis of the heavenly bodies by the gradual coalescence of a thin, luminous substance diffused through space. It is dedicated to the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, whose massive Cosmos attempted to harmonize a knowledge of the physical environment with a classical ideal of humanity. But it was actually much closer (as Daniel Hoffman points out) to the dubious revelations of his contemporaries, Joseph Smith and Mary Baker Eddy, the founders of Mormonism and of Christian Science. Unlike most of Poe’s major works, Eureka fell stillborn from the press, was ignored by the general public and had absolutely no influence on scientific or philosophical thought.”
― Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy
― Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy
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