Jeffrey Meyers, Author . Knopf $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-375-41475-6
The long-lived and highly prolific Maugham (1874–1965) finds a sympathetic biographer in the similarly productive Meyers (George Orwell
, etc.). This inveterate traveler was marked as a wanderer by his Parisian birth and early orphanhoodȁ
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Jeffrey Meyers. Crown, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-307-59067-1
In his detailed, absorbing portrait of Huston (1906–1987), biographer Meyers (George Orwell, Samuel Johnson, and Somerset Maugham) captures the remarkable parallels between these two men as he narrates the life and compelling work of one of the...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-72809-3
Meyers, the author of 12 earlier biographies, gets off to a less-than-persuasive start by asserting that ""now"" he can reveal that Frost's (1874-1963) love poems after his wife's death can be traced to his passion, beginning at 64, for his married...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $35 (554p) ISBN 978-0-395-68993-6
A remarkable feat of biographical sleuthing, this refreshingly down-to-earth life of critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) peers beneath the crusty persona of a grandee of the literary establishment to portray a tormented, restless, sexually hyperactive...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author HarperCollins Publishers $27.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-019036-1
Meyers's compulsively readable, marvelously vivid biography of Jazz Age novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) uncovers a wealth of new details that cumulatively bring into focus a tragic figure torn between the struggle for artistic integrity and
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author Scribner Book Company $30 (348p) ISBN 978-0-684-19370-0
Meyers ( Joseph Conrad ) focuses on the ways the works of poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) influenced many other great writers, including Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, Nabokov and Baudelaire. Hailed in France as the inventor of the...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author Scribner Book Company $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19230-7
To his distinguished biogrpahies of Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence and others, Meyers now adds a study of the elusive author of Nostromo and Victor , and he comes up with all sorts of little-known or unpublished material. Meyers provides...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author Arbor House Publishing $17.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-87795-920-5
The four men whose intertwined lives are examined here for possible connection between madness and genius are considered among the greatest American poets of this century. The leader, perhaps because of his patrician origins as much as his...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author William Morrow & Company $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-15494-3
On screen, Cooper (1901-1961) was the tall, lean American--cowboy, soldier, baseball player--who embodied the ideals of duty, honor and integrity in a beguiling natural acting style. Off screen, he was the tall, lean American whose hedonism...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (445p) ISBN 978-0-679-73065-1
In this penetrating profile, Meyers traces a writer who alienated friends, fervidly explored sexuality, restlessly traveled and refused to acknowledge the tuberculosis that claimed his life in 1930. Photos. (May)
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author Southbank Publishing $16 (256p) ISBN 978-1-904915-09-6
Biographer Meyers delves into the married lives of nine novelists-Tolstoy, Shaw, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Mansfield, Lawrence, Hemingway and Fitzgerald-bypassing the daily bric-a-brac of marriage to focus on the artists' intertwined commitments to...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author . Basic $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-465-04571-6
Dr. Johnson was one of the most keenly observed figures in his time, and with the second book of the season anticipating the 2009 tercentenary of his birth (after Peter Martin's, published by Harvard in September), he remains a massive,...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author . Harcourt $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-101178-0
In this personality-driven new biography, Meyers (Katherine Mansfield
; Hemingway
; D.H. Lawrence
; etc.) turns his discerning eye to an artist whose "painting thrived on chaos," the French-Italian-Jewish bohemian Amedeo Modigliani. A...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author . Harcourt $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-101076-9
The author of biographies of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, Meyers highlights here the intertwined lives of four Impressionist painters. Commencing with Edouard Manet (1832–1883), Meyers chronicles the artist's angst-ridden life as a...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1090-4
The sins of the father resurface in the struggles of the son in Meyers's rollicking double biography of the charismatic movie star Errol Flynn and his equally handsome son, Sean. The life of the elder Flynn is, of course, well known. A native...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author, Jeffrey C. Myers, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-395-77399-4
For his first film biography, Meyers, who has written about the lives of Hemingway, Conrad, Poe and Frost (Robert Frost, 1996) tackles Humphrey Bogart (1899- 1957), whose film breakthrough came as private eye Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941)....
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author, Jeffery Meyers, Author, Jeffery Meyer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (445p) ISBN 978-0-394-57244-4
In a book glimmering with insights, the author of the acclaimed Hemingway presents a fresh look at Lawrence. Telling of the coal miner's son fascinated with the ``elemental carbon'' in people, Meyers recreates the difficult friend who alienated...
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Jeffrey Meyers, Author, Frank Ronan, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $27.5 (644p) ISBN 978-0-06-015437-0
There was a cartoon famous some 35 years ago that depicted an editor returning a manuscript to a crestfallen author: ""But you have a wonderful style; Hemingway's, isn't it?'' In this critical bigraphy, Meyers, a professor at the University of...
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