Richard Meryman, the son of a painter, worked for twenty-three years as a reporter, correspondent, editor, and staff writer for the original
Life magazine. A freelance writer since 1972, he is the author of several books, including
Hope: A Loss Survived; Broken Promises, Mended Dreams; and
Andrew Wyeth (1968), a major book of the artist's paintings. He first met Wyeth when he wrote an article about him for Life in 1964, and has kept in touch with him ever since.
Meryman and his wife live in New York.
