Jeffrey Meyers

Jeffrey Meyers (born April 1, 1939) is an American biographer and literary, art, and film critic.

Life As of 2018, Jeffrey Meyers has published 54 books and 980 articles on art, film, and modern American, English, and European literature. His wide range of interests include bibliography, editing, literary criticism, and biography. He is a specialist in archival research and published the FBI file on Ernest Hemingway, love letters by Hemingway, and literary manuscripts by Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Roy Campbell. Meyers has had 33 works translated into 14 languages and has been called a "serial biographer" due to his prolific output.

He has been interviewed many times and has appeared in documentary films about Edgar Allan Poe,Poe: Tales of Terror, Discovery-Learning Channel Television, January 22, 2001. Gary Cooper,Biography A&E Television, June 23, 1997. and Errol Flynn,Lowlands Media, Australian television documentary, March 23, 2006. and BBC-TV programs on HemingwayBBC Omnibus, July 1987. and D. H. Lawrence. He has spoken on television about his literary discoveries on CBS Morning NewsCBS Morning News, March 28, 1983. and about Orwell on C-SPAN's Booknotes.C-SPAN, Booknotes, 2001.

Publications Biographies 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.

Literary criticism 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.

Bibliographies 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.

Edited collections 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.

Edited collections of original 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.

Edited letters 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.

Introductions to books "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.

Awards 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.

Honors Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1983. Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, 1986-87. University of Colorado Research Lecturer, 1988. Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, 1992-94. American Academy of Arts and Letters: Award in Literature, 2005 Judge of PEN Biography Award, 2010. Seymour Lectures, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, 2012.

Literary accolades of Meyers' Hemingway: A Biography