Articles By Jeffrey Meyers
June 2018
The great Impressionist’s series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral prefigures the movies: his eye was the camera, his canvas the screen
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February 2018
Schiele and Soutine both used art to express pathological suffering and confront death
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October 2017
Outsiders, gamblers, brawlers: Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon had a volatile friendship which flourished wildly but ended badly
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December/January 2016/17
Hugh Gordon Porteus was a minor but engaging figure in London’s pre-war bohemia
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October 2015
Five British writers were in Russia in 1917. Each one had his own story, but all were overwhelmed by the powerful tide of history
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January/February 2015
Like the poet, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a dashing man of action and letters and a hero to the Greeks for his wartime exploits in Crete
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October 2014
The Keeper of the Queen's Pictures and Soviet spy sought out kindred spirits among artists who, like him, had lived double lives
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April 2014
Unpublished documents reveal how the brilliant 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava met his end on a wartime mission in Burma
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May 2013
Underrated American author James Salter's latest novel, at its best, evokes Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Tolstoy
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About Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has written biographies of Orwell, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. Thirty of his books have been translated into 14 languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents.
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