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Jeffrey Meyers has written extensively on literature, film, and art. He is the author of forty-eight books, including The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe and biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Meyers is one of twelve Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2005 he received an Award in Literature "to honor exceptional achievement" from t...

This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events of Hemingway's vigorous life, his experiences in two World Wars and the Spanish Civil War, and his sudden fame and slow decline. 29 photos. 7 maps.

An illustrated biography of actor Humphrey Bogart which covers his work and personal life.

Jeffrey Meyers has written extensively on literature, film, and art. He is the author of forty-eight books, including The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe and biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Meyers is one of twelve Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2005 he received an Award in Literature "to honor exceptional achievement" from t...

This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife (he was married four times, among them, Mary McCarthy), had affairs with numerous beautiful women, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, and was f...

Meyers emphasizes Fitzgerald's alcoholism, Zelda's illnesses and her doctors, Fitzgerald's love affairs both before and after her breakdown, and his wide-ranging friendships, from the polo star Tommy Hitchcock to the Hollywood executive Irving Thalberg.

Esta es la biografía definitiva de un ídolo nacional, el lacónico actor que llegó a simbolizar los ideales americanos de confianza en sí mismo, independencia y honestidad en películas clásicas como "Solo ante el peligro" y "Juan Nadie", pero cuya turbulenta vida privada estuvo reñida con frecuencia con su impecable imagen pública.El escritor Jeffrey Meyers, entre cuyas obras se encuentran las afamadas biografías de Bogart, Hemingway y Fitzgera...

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The Genius and the Goddess, based on Jeffrey Meyers' long friendship with Arthur Miller and extensive archival research from Washington to Los Angeles, is a portrait of a marriage. But Marilyn remained Miller's tragic muse and her character, exalted and tormented, lived on, for the next forty years, in his work.

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Robert Lowell was known not only as a great poet but also as a writer whose devotion to his art came at a tremendous personal cost. In this work, his third on Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers examines the poet's impassioned, fraught relationships with the key women in his life, including his mother, his three wives, nine of his many lovers, his close women friends, and his most talented students.

A collection of new essays on T.E. Lawrence. They consider his military, diplomatic and literary achievements as well as his reputation and influence. The author has written several works on Lawrence.

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Respected biographer Jeffrey Meyers delves into the complex life of the man whose visionary work gave us the great anti-utopias of modern literature. "The breadth of his research is impressive" (New York Times Book Review), drawing on a close study of the new edition of Orwell's Complete Works, personal interviews, and unpublished material in London's Orwell Archive.  Meyers's "briskly paced, absorbing narrative...offers keen insights" (Boston...

Celebrated biographer, Jeffrey Meyers recounts the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad.

Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes follows Mann's own obsession with the artistic life through his characters. Mann probes deeper than perhaps any other author into questions of how an artist is formed, why he must defy conventional society, and how suffering and disease affect his work.

This history of the art of biography and case-by-case analysis of some of the great literary biographies, from Johnson's Life of Savage (1744) to Edel's monumental Henry James (1953-1972), confirms the idea that life-writing is a flourishing art form.

One of the most influential social activists of the twentieth century, A. J. Muste is remembered by some as a pioneering labor leader, by others for his work helping lay the foundations of the civil rights movement, and by many others for his tireless work for peace, justice, economic equality, and the protection of civil liberties. As a pastor, Muste's life and work were shaped by his Christian theology. This collection of Muste's sermons, sp...