Jeffrey Meyers

In this book, Jeffrey Meyers follows the lives of four Impressionist painters whose rebellious work was scorned by the critics and derided by their contemporaries. The French art establishment dismissed them altogether and at the time their sold for very little. Impressionist Quartet describes the relationships between these artists and how they struggle emotionally and intellectually to create a new way of seeing and representing the world.

Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnsons, A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. The Struggle is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.

Married to Genius considers the emotional and artistic commitment in the marriages of nine modern writers, Tolstoy, Shaw, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Mansfield, Lawrence, Hemmingway and Scott Fitzgerald. The book reveals the way these major writers attempted to integrate life and art and to resolve the conflict between domestic and creative fulfilment.

An extraordinary father-son biography of the scandalous life of movie star Errol Flynn and of his sons equally glamorous yet doomed career as a war photographer in Vietnam.

Hijo de un funcionario británico en la India colonial, George Orwell desarrolló en sus primeros años una conciencia crítica y no tardó en renegar del sofocante sistema de clases en que nació. El sentimiento de culpa y la lucida percepcion de la realidad fueron dos elementos que marcaron su vida y su carrera como escritor.

This book, illustrated for the first time with two dozen photos, reveals an introspective and enigmatic personality previously hidden behind a hedonistic facade.

A partir de la larga amistad entre Jeffrey Meyers y Arthur Miller, y de la exhaustiva investigación llevada a cabo por el autor desde Washington a Los Ángeles, surge El Genio y la Diosa, el retrato del matrimonio entre el mayor dramaturgo estadounidense del siglo XX, Arthur Miller, y la actriz mas famosa de todos los tiempos, Marilyn Monroe. Una pareja insolita cuya turbulenta relacion sirve tambien al autor para retratar toda una epoca.

Published to coincide with his centennial in May 2001, this definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays actor Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites. Meyers offers a riveting, inside look at Coopers career; his tempestuous relationships with Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, Clara Bow, and Tallulah Bankhead; and his legendary friendship with Ernest Hemingway.

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 Fitzgeralds. 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 friend to literary giants such as John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabakov, and W.H. Auden.

Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Meyers fresh insights into Lawrences life illuminate Lawrences working-class childhood, his tempestuous marriage, and his death in France after the scandalous publication of Lady Chatterleys Lover, revealing Lawrences complex method of intermingling autobiography and fiction. Through intensive research and access to unpublished essays and letters of Lawrence and his circle, Meyers describes the circumstances of his mothers death, the reason for the suppression of The Rainbow, and the authors protean (and extreme) sexuality that mirrored that of his fiction.

This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but exploited author and editor, a man who veered radically from temperance to rampant debauchery, and an agnostic who sought a return to religion at the end of his life. Acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers explores the writers turbulent life and career, including his marriage and multiple, simultaneous romances, his literary feuds, and his death at an early age under bizarre and troubling circumstances.

Ésta 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 publica. Jeffrey Meyers crea un extraordinario retrato ba sado en una estrecha cooperacion con la hija del actor y la de destacados colegas e intimos amigos com Arlene Dahl, Patricia Neal y Fay Wray, con quienes Meyers mantuvo largas entrevistas. Aunque, en privado, callado y solitario el Cooper de fuera de la pantalla era todo menos sencillo. Era un sofisticado y elegante hombre de mundo, con deseos e ideas acordes con su carisma. Mientras a lo largo de este libro, escrupulosamente documentado, se sigue la carrera del actor con meticuloso detalle, se relatan tambien sus tormentosos idilios con Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly y Patricia Neal -por nombrar solo algunas de las muchas mujeres de su vida-, el libro analiza su larga amistad con Ernest Hemingway, y arroja una lucida mirada sobre su controvertida implicacion con el Comite de Actividades Antiamericanas y la lista negra de Hollywood.Gary Cooper. El heroe americano es el retrato ampliamente logrado de una gran estrella, cuyas contradicciones no hacen mas realzar la genialidad de un hombre que creo algunos de los personajes mas inolvidables y perdurables de la Edad Dorada de Hollywood.

In Joseph Conrad: A Biography, acclaimed writer Jeffrey Meyers presents the definitive account of the life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and many other landmarks in modern literature. Meyers biography, published for the first time in paperback by Cooper Square Press, is the first biography of the author in many years.Joseph Conrad brings to light new information about Conrads life and its impact on his fiction: new models emerge for his characters, including Heart of Darkness Kurtz, and Meyers also examines in great detail Conrads relationship with the wild and beautiful American journalist Jane Anderson.

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. The greatest American playwright of the twentieth century and the most popular American actress both complemented and wounded one another.Marilyn Monroe was a doomed personality whose tragic end was inevitable. Miller experienced creative agony with her. Their five-year marriage, from 1956 to 1961, coincided with the creative peak of her career, yet private and public conflict caused both of them great anguish.This book explains why they married, what sustained them for five years and what destroyed them; the effect of the anti-Communist witch-hunts on their marriage; and the impact of Marilyn on Millers life and art. The fascinating cast of characters includes Marilyns co-stars: Sir Laurence Olivier, Yves Montand and Clark Gable; her leading directors: John Huston, Billy Wilder and George Cukor; and her literary friends: Dame Edith Sitwell, Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov.Meyers offers an incisive account of the making and meaning of The Misfits, which destroyed their marriage. But Marilyn remained Millers tragic muse and her character, exalted and tormented, lived on, for the next forty years, in his work.