Jeffrey Meyers

Jeffrey Meyers (* 1 April 1939, New York) is 'n Amerikaanse biograaf en literêre-, kuns- en rolprentkritikus. 

Hy woon tans in Berkeley, Kalifornië.

 Lewe 
Jeffrey Meyers is in 1939 in New York Stad gebore en het grootgeword in New York. Hy was 'n voorgraadse student aan die Universiteit van Michigan en het sy doktorsgraad aan die Universiteit van Kalifornië, Berkeley verwerf. Hy het klas gegee by die Universiteit van Kalifornië, Los Angeles (1963–65), by die Verre Ooste-afdeling van die Universiteit van Maryland in Japan (1965–66) en Tufts-universiteit (1967–71). Hierna het hy tyd spandeer aan sy skryfwerk in Londen en Málaga, Spanje (1971–75), voordat hy van 1975 tot 1992 by die Universiteit van Colorado klas gegee het. Hy was 'n besoekende professor by die universiteite van Kent en Massachusetts, Jemison-professor by die Universiteit van Alabama en Besoekende geleerde by Berkeley. Hy het drie Colorado-navorsingstoekennings (twee in 1976, een in 1988) en twee fakulteitsbeurse (1986 en 1991) gewen, sowel as 'n Huntington-biblioteek- (1971), Fulbright- (1978–79), American Council of Learned Societies- (ACLS) (1983–84) en Guggenheim-toegif (1978–79). Hy is sedert 1992 'n professionele skrywer in Berkeley, Kalifornië. In 1983 het Meyers een van 12 Amerikaners geword wat genote is van die Royal Society of Literature, en in 2005 het hy 'n toekenning in Letterkunde ontvang "ter ere van uitsonderlike prestasie" van die American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Met ingang 2018 het Meyers 54 boeke en 980 artikels oor kuns, rolprente en moderne Amerikaanse, Engelse en Europese letterkunde gepubliseer. Sy wye reeks belangstellings sluit in bibliografieë, redigering, literêre kritiek en biografieë. Hy is 'n spesialis in argiefnavorsing en het die FBI-lêer oor Ernest Hemingway, die liefdesbriewe van Hemingway, en literêre manuskripte deur Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound en Roy Campbell gepubliseer. Meyers het 33 werke in 14 tale laat vertaal en word soms na verwys as 'n "reeksbiograaf" weens sy produktiewe biografiese uitset.

Sy manuskripte word gehuisves in die biblioteke van die Universiteit van Tulsa, Universiteit van Texas in Austin, Harvard-universiteit, Universiteit van Virginië, sowel as in die John F. Kennedy Presidensiële Biblioteek en die Huntington-biblioteek in Los Angeles. Hy het by 70 universiteite doseer. Hy het in dokumentêre rolprente verskyn oor Edgar Allan Poe,Poe: Tales of Terror, Discovery-Learning Channel Television, 22 Januarie 2001. Gary CooperBiography A&E Television, 23 Junie 1997. en Errol Flynn,Lowlands Media, Australian television documentary, 23 Maart 2006. sowel as in BBC-programme oor HemingwayBBC Omnibus, Julie 1987. en D.H. Lawrence. Hy het op televisie gesels oor sy literêre ontdekkings op CBS Morning NewsCBS Morning News, 28 Maart 1983. en oor Orwell op C-Span se Booknotes.C-Span, Booknotes, 2001. In 2012 het hy die Seymour-lesings in biografie gegee by die Nasionale Biblioteek van Australië in Canberra, Melbourne en Sydney.

 Persoonlike lewe 
Jeffrey Meyers is in 1965 getroud met Valerie Froggatt. Hul dogter Rachel is in 1972 gebore en het twee kinders. Benewens skryf, sluit Meyers se stokperdjies die versamel van boeke in sowel as tennis. Hy woon tans in Berkeley, Kalifornië.

 Kwalifikasies 
 B.A. Engels: Universiteit van Michigan, 1959, (hy het van 1957 tot 1958 die Universiteit van Edinburgh bygewoon)
 Harvard regskool en Harvard nagraadse skool, 1959–60
 M.A. Engels: Universiteit van Kalifornië, Berkeley, 1961
 Ph.D. Engels: Universiteit van Kalifornië, Berkeley, 1967

 Loopbaan 
 Assistent-professor, Universiteit van Kalifornië, Los Angeles, 1963–65
 Dosent, Verre-Ooste-afdeling, Universiteit van Maryland, 1965–66
 Assistent-professor, Tufts-universiteit, 1967–71
 Professionele skrywer in Londen en Málaga, 1971-75
 Assosiaat-professor, Universiteit van Colorado, 1975–78
 Besoekende professor, Universiteit van Kent, Canterbury, 1979–80
 Besoekende professor, Universiteit van Massachusetts, Amherst, 1982–83
 Professor, Universiteit van Colorado, 1978–1992
 Jemison-professor, Universiteit van Alabama, Birmingham, 1992
 Professionele skrywer in Berkeley, Kalifornië, 1992–teenswoordig

 Publikasies 
 Biografieë 
 A Fever at the Core: The Idealist in Politics. London: London Magazine Editions; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1976.
 Married to Genius. London: London Magazine Editions; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1977.
 Katherine Mansfield: A Biography. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978, 2nd printing 1979; New York: New Directions, 1980.
 The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
 Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1985; Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1985; London: Macmillan, 1986; Melbourne: Macmillan, 1986.
 Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle. London: Macmillan; New York: Arbor House, 1987.
 D. H. Lawrence: A Biography. New York: Knopf; London: Macmillan; Toronto: Random House; Melbourne: Macmillan, 1990.
 Joseph Conrad: A Biography. London: John Murray; New York: Scribner; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1991.
 Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. London: John Murray; New York: Scribner; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1992.
 Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography. New York and Toronto: HarperCollins; London: Macmillan, 1994.
 Edmund Wilson: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Constable, 1995.
 Portuguese translation: Editora Civilizacão Brasileira, 1997.
 Robert Frost: A Biography.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Constable, 1996.
 Bogart: A Life in Hollywood.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: André Deutsch, 1997.
 Gary Cooper:  American Hero.  New York:  William Morrow, 1998; London: Robert Hale, 2001.
 Privileged Moments: Encounters with Writers.  Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
 Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation. New York and London: Norton; Toronto: Viking-Penguin, 2000.
 Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.
 Somerset Maugham: A Life. New York: Knopf; Toronto: Random House, 2004.
 Paperback edition: New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
 Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt. New York: Harcourt, 2005.
 Modigliani: A Life. New York: Harcourt; London, Duckworth; Sydney: Tower, 2006.
 Serialized in Daily Mail (London), 23 June 2006, pp. 36–37.
 Samuel Johnson: The Struggle. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
 The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. London: Hutchinson, 2009; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
 John Huston: Courage and Art. New York and Toronto: Crown Archetype (imprint of Random House), 2011.
 Robert Lowell in Love. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
 Resurrections: Authors, Heroes--and a Spy. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2018.

 Literêre kritiek 
 Fiction and the Colonial Experience. Ipswich, England: Boydell Press; Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1973.
 The Wounded Spirit: A Study of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". Preface by Sir Alec Kirkbride. London: Martin, Brian & O'Keeffe, 1973.
 A Reader's Guide to George Orwell. London: Thames & Hudson, 1975; Totowa, New Jersey: Littlefield & Adams, 1977.
 Painting and the Novel. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975.
 Homosexuality and Literature, 1890-1930. London: Athlone Press of London University; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1977.
 D. H. Lawrence and the Experience of Italy. Philadelphia and London: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
 Disease and the Novel, 1860-1960. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1985.
 The Spirit of Biography. Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1989.
 Hemingway: Life into Art. New York: Cooper Square; London: National Book Network, 2000.
 Orwell: Life and Art. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
 Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes. Evanston and London: Northwestern University Press, 2014.
 Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 2014.

 Bibliografieë 
 T. E. Lawrence: A Bibliography. New York and London: Garland, 1974.
 Catalogue of the Library of the Late Siegfried Sassoon. London: Christie's, June 4, 1975.
 George Orwell: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. New York and London: Garland, 1977.

 Geredigeerde versamelings 
 George Orwell: The Critical Heritage. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975.  Reprinted 1997 and 2001.
 Hemingway: The Critical Heritage. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.  Reprinted 1997 and 1999.
 Robert Lowell: Interviews and Memoirs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988; Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1988.
 The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader: From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism. New York: Cooper Square; London: National Book Network, 2002.
 The W. Somerset Maugham Reader: Novels, Stories, Travel Writing.  Lanham, Maryland: Taylor; London: National Book Network, 2004.

 Geredigeerde versamelings van oorspronklike essays 
 Wyndham Lewis; A Revaluation. London: Athlone Press; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980.
 Wyndham Lewis by Roy Campbell. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1985.
 D. H. Lawrence and Tradition. London: Athlone Press; Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.
 The Craft of Literary Biography. London: Macmillan; New York: Schocken, 1985.
 The Legacy of D. H. Lawrence. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1987.
 The Biographer's Art. London: Macmillan; New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1989.
 T. E. Lawrence: Soldier, Writer, Legend. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1989.
 Graham Greene: A Revaluation. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1990.

 Geredigeerde briewe 
 Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews, with a Memoir. New York and London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013.
 The Mystery of the Real: Letters of the Canadian Artist Alex Colville and Biographer Jeffrey Meyers. Edited, with Four Essays, by Jeffrey Meyers. Brighton, England and Chicago: Sussex Academic Press, 2016.

 Inleidings tot boeke 
 "Introduction" to Katherine Mansfield. Four Poems. London: Eric and Joan Stevens, 1980.
 "Introduction" to Best Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling. New York: New American Library, Signet Classics, 1987. Pp. vii-xvi.
 "Introduction" to 'Robert Louis Stevenson. The Body-Snatcher and Other Stories. New York: New American Library, Signet Classics, 1988. Pp. vii-xviii.
 "Introduction" to D. H. Lawrence. The Rainbow. New York: Bantam, 1991. Pp. vii-xvi.
 "Introduction" to Ford Madox Ford. The Good Soldier. New York: Bantam, 1991. Pp. v-xviii.
 "Introduction" to Katherine Mansfield. Stories. New York: Vintage, 1991. Pp. vii-xiv.
 "Introduction and Notes" to F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. London: Dent-Everyman, 1993. Pp. viii-xxvii, 135-164.
 "Introduction and Notes" to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. London: Dent-Everyman, 1993. Pp. viii-xxxii, 295-330.
 "Foreword" to Sachidananda Mohanty. Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Defeat of Fascism.  New Delhi: Academic Foundation Press, 1993. pp. 9–11.
 "Introduction" to W. Somerset Maugham. The Moon and Sixpence. New York: Bantam, 1995. Pp. v-xiv.
 "Introduction" to Sherwood Anderson. Winesburg, Ohio. New York: Bantam, 1995. Pp. ix-xx.
 "Introduction and Notes" to Robert Frost. Early Frost: The First Three Books. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1996; Toronto:  Penguin, 1996.  Pp. xi-xxxv, 195-198.
 "Introduction" to E. M. Forster.  Where Angels Fear to Tread.  New York:  Bantam, 1996. Pp. vii-xix.
 "Introduction" to D. H. Lawrence.  The Lost Girl.  New York: Bantam, 1996. Pp. vii-xvii.
 "Introduction" to E. M. Forster.  The Longest Journey.  New York:  Bantam, 1997. Pp. ix-xix.
 "Introduction" to Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard.  Berkeley and London:  University of California Press, 1999. Pp. vii-xvii. Italian translation; 2004.
 "Introduction" to Billy Wilder. Stalag 17.  Berkeley and London:  University of California Press, 1999. Pp. vii-xv.
 "Introduction" to Billy Wilder. Double Indemnity.  Berkeley and London:  University of California Press, 2000. Pp. vii-xvi. Italian translation; 2004.
 "Introduction" to Billy Wilder. The Lost Weekend.  Berkeley and London:  University of California Press, 2000. Pp. vii-xiv.
 "Introduction" to Joseph Conrad. Under Western Eyes.  London and New York:  Folio Society, 2000. pp. 7–13.
 "Introduction" to Joseph Conrad. Under Western Eyes. New York: Modern Library, 2001. Pp. ix-xvi.
 "Introduction" to Jeffrey Meyers.  Katherine Mansfield: A Biography. New York: Cooper Square, 2002. Pp. xv-xxi.
 "Introduction" to Edgar Allan Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. New York: Modern Library, 2002. Pp. ix-xvii.
 "Introduction" to Errol Flynn. My Wicked, Wicked Ways. New York: Cooper Square; London: Aurum, 2003. pp. 3–7.
 "Introduction" to Christopher Isherwood. The Condor and the Cows. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. xiii-xxiv.
 "Introduction and Notes" to Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003. Pp. xiii-xl. Reprinted 2004.
 "Introduction and Notes" to Rudyard Kipling. Kim. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004.  Pp. xv-xxxiii.
 "Introduction" to Joseph Conrad. The Mirror of the Sea and A Personal Record. London and New York: Folio Society, 2005. pp. 9–17.
 "Introduction and Notes" to Nikolai Gogol. Dead Souls. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005. Pp. ix-xxxii.
 "Afterword" to Bram Stoker. Dracula. New York: Signet, 2007.  pp. 381–389.
 "Afterword" to Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native. New York: Signet, 2008. pp. 403–412.
 "Afterword" to Stephen Crane. The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Signet, 2011. pp. 226–233.
 "Afterword" to Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. New York: Signet, 2011. pp. 227–235.
 "Introduction" to Joseph Conrad. The Secret Agent. Milwaukee: Wiseblood, 2014. pp. 1–7.

 Pryse 
 Tufts University Faculty Fellowship, 1968.
 American Council of Learned Societies, 1970.
 Huntington Library, 1971.
 Two University of Colorado Research Grants, 1976.
 Fulbright to Brazil, 1977–78, (won but fellowship not accepted).
 University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 1978-79.
 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978-79.
 American Council of Learned Societies, 1983-1984.
 University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 1986-87.
 University of Colorado Research Grant, 1988.
 University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 1991-92.

 Eerbewyse 
 Genoot van die Royal Society of Literature, 1983.
 Besoekende geleerde, Universiteit van Kalifornië, Berkeley, 1986-87.
 Universiteit van Colorado navorsingsdosent, 1988.
 Besoekende geleerde, Universiteit van Kalifornië, Berkeley, 1992-94.
 American Academy of Arts and Letters: Award in Literature, 2005
 Beoordelaar van die PEN-toekenning vir Biografie, 2010.
 Seymour-lesings, Nasionale Biblioteek van Australië, Canberra, Melbourne en Sydney, 2012.

 Literêre lof vir Meyers se Hemingway: A Biography 

Anthony Powell en Anthony Burgess het Meyers se Hemingway: A Biography lof toegeswaai. Tom Stoppard het die werk gekies as "Beste Boek van die Jaar" in 1986. In die Verenigde State het die digter James Dickey opgemerk: "Meyers has given us an extremely valuable deepening of what is quite likely to prove Hemingway's greatest work, his life." Die wenner van die National Book Award, J.F. Powers, het opgemerk: "This is simply the best book there is on Hemingway, thorough, perceptive, no holds barred, highly entertaining, so good and right on the famous writer and also on the famous performer who acted from the All-American hope that what goes up may not come down, but did, in this case, tragically." George Painter, die vooraanstaande biograaf van Marcel Proust, het geskryf: "I believe that Professor Meyers' Hemingway is one of the great biographies of our half-century, a masterwork in which true scholarship and creative art are so united as to become indistinguishable, and worthy to belong with Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, [Leslie] Marchand's Byron or Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey. Ellmann's passing has been universally mourned; but one can at least feel that the world now has a new major biographer."

 Geselekteerde bibliografieë oor Jeffrey Meyers 
 Directory of American Scholars. 8th edition. New York, 1982. P. 482.
 Debrett's People of Today. London, 1994. P. 1397.
 World Authors, 1985-1990. Ed. Vineta Colby. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1995. pp. 555–558.
 International Authors and Writers Who's Who. 16th edition. Cambridge, England 1999. P. 419.
 Writers Directory. 15th edition. Detroit, 2000. P. 1056.
 Outstanding Authors of the 20th Century. Cambridge, England, 2000.
 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century. Cambridge, England, 2000.
 Contemporary Authors. vol. 181. Detroit, 2000. pp. 299–318. Revised and reprinted in vol. 186. Detroit, 2000. pp. 233–253.
 Contemporary Authors New Revision. vol. 54. Detroit, 1997. pp. 302–307. Revised and expanded in vol. 102. Detroit, 2002. pp. 299–345. Revised and expanded in vol. 159. Detroit, 2007. pp. 273–281.
 Who's Who in America. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis, 2016. 2.2640.
 Howard Moss. "Katherine Mansfield". Whatever Is Moving. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981. pp. 183–195.
 Geoffrey Grigson. "The Ogre in the Black Hat." Blessings, Kicks and Curses. London: Allison & Busby, 1982. pp. 34–36.
 Tom Stoppard, "Best Book of the Year: Hemingway," Observer (London), 30 November 1986, p. 21.
 Baird Shuman. "Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers." Contemporary Literary Criticism Yearbook, 1985. Ed. Sharon Hall. Detroit: Gale, 1986.pp. 427–435.
 Howard Moss. "Katherine Mansfield." Minor Monuments. New York: Ecco, 1986. pp. 211–223.
 Denis Brian. The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him Best. New York: Grove, 1988. Pp. 32, 65, 90-91, 104, 143, 160, 190, 226, 231, 254-255, 258-259, 267, 276, 279, 281-286, 340.
 Denis Donoghue. "Wyndham Lewis." England, Their England. New York: Knopf, 1988. pp. 290–293.
 Anthony Powell. "Hemingway." Miscellaneous Verdicts. London: Heinemann, 1990. pp. 235–237.
 Mark Allister. "Jeffrey Meyers." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century American Literary Biographers. Second Series. Columbia, S. C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1991. pp. 186–98.
 Francis King, "Best Book of the Year: Edmund Wilson," Spectator, 275, 18 November 1995, p. 48.
 Milan Kundera. "Hemingway." Testaments Betrayed.  New York: HarperCollins, 1995.  pp. 142–145.
 Ian Hamilton, "Edmund Wilson's Wounds." The Trouble with Money.  London: Bloomsbury, 1998.  pp. 31–39.
 Hilton Kramer. "The Edmund Wilson Centenary." The Twilight of the Intellectuals. Chicago: Ivan Dee, 1999. pp. 95–106.
 Elizabeth Hardwick. "Edmund Wilson." Sight-Readings. New York: Random House, 1998.  pp. 204–218.
 John Rodden. Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2003. pp. 163–176.
 Carl Rollyson. "Edmund Wilson." American Biography. Lincoln, Nebraska: Universe Books, 2006. pp. 272–275.
 William Boyd. "Katherine Mansfield." Bamboo: Essays and Criticism. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. pp. 91–93.
 Paul Theroux. The Tao of Travel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. pp. 217–218, 282-283..

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