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Jeffrey Meyers



Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently been given an Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Thirty of his books have been translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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Hemingway: A Biography

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Edgar Allan Poe: His Life a...

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Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography

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Modigliani: A Life

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Orwell: Wintry Conscience o...

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The Genius and the Goddess:...

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Gary Cooper, American Hero,

3.51 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions
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Impressionist Quartet: The ...

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Somerset Maugham: A Life

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Inherited Risk: Errol and S...

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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.”
Jeffrey Meyers, 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.”
Jeffrey Meyers, 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.”
Jeffrey Meyers, Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy

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