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.