Biography - Meyers, Jeffrey (1939-): An article from: ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 23 Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Somerset Maugham: A Life
An Excellent Life of an Underrated Author: Jeffrey Meyers is a prolific biographer of literary figures whose books are hit-and-miss - while never less than professional, they are sometimes excellent and sometimes disappointing, depending on the rapport [... more]
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Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and ...
Frustrating Read: Think carefully before buying this book. You won't finish it. The author spends most of his time describing (but not really analyzing) numerous works of art which are not illustrated in the book. At first, I tried to look up each image [... more]
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Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
The Good Doctor: I have read the other Johnson biography of the season, Peter Martin's, and would suggest this effort by Jeffery Meyers is the more entertaining and pleasant to read. While both biographies are good, if I were asked to recommend one of [... more]
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George Orwell: The Critical Heritage
Author: JEFFREY MEYERS Binding: Kindle Edition Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2007-03-23 Release Date: 2007-03-23 [... more]
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Inherited Risk: Errol Flynn and Sean Flynn in Hollywood ...
A JOYLESS TREATMENT OF A JOYFUL, ROLLICKING LIFE: Jeffrey Meyers, best known for his works on such literary figures as D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a gifted, at times brilliant biographer. Here he brings to his treatment [... more]
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Married to Genius: A Fascinating Insight Into the ...
Better to marry than to have to do one's own laundry: Great writers usually make bad spouses. Their dedication to their work means they have less time for real consideration and feeling for other human beings, even those closest to them. Jeffrey Meyers [... more]
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Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
The Good Doctor: I have read the other Johnson biography of the season, Peter Martin's, and would suggest this effort by Jeffery Meyers is the more entertaining and pleasant to read. While both biographies are good, if I were asked to recommend one of [... more]
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Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
Meyers' biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald: I found Jeffrey's Meyers' biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald dismaying. Not that Meyers' doesn't write well (he does), or capture the essence of Fitzgerald's dissipation, but the book seemed a deliberate hack job. [... more]
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Somerset Maugham: A Life
An Excellent Life of an Underrated Author: Jeffrey Meyers is a prolific biographer of literary figures whose books are hit-and-miss - while never less than professional, they are sometimes excellent and sometimes disappointing, depending on the rapport [... more]
$16.00
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Ernest Hemingway: The Critical Heritage
Author: JEFFREY MEYERS Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 810 Edition: 1 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 628 Publication Date: 2007-03-23 Release Date: 2007-03-23 [... more]
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Gary Cooper: An American Hero
Nope: This is a unimpressive and down-right sloppy book on one of the movies' greatest stars and actors. How could you write a blah book on Gary Cooper? The author seems to recycle too much "information" from previous books on Cooper or other [... more]
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