Jeffrey Meyers taught for thirty years at universities in America, England and Japan. He has published 53 books and 900 articles on art, film and modern American, English and European literature. Anthony Powell and Anthony Burgess praised his life of Hemingway, and Tom Stoppard chose it as the Best Book of the Year in 1986. Thirty-one of his books have been translated into14 languages. He is one of ten Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.