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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 Conrad's 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 Conrad's relationship with the wild and beautiful American journalist Jane Anderson.

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ISBN-13:	9780815411123
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/09/2001
Edition description:	1ST COOPER
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.16(w) x 8.94(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the author of Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy, Hemingway: Life into Art, and Gary Cooper: An American Hero, (all available from Cooper Square Press), in addition to biographies of Humphrey Bogart, D. H. Lawrence, Edmund Wilson, and George Orwell. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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Shrewdly and sensitively written, and clearly inspired by a great admiration for its subject.

The New York Times - Joyce Carol Oates

Meyers has looked hard at the raw materials of Conrad's life and has made the right connections. The resulting portrait is stunning and compelling.

Los Angeles Times - Jay Parini

Shrewdly and sensitively written, and clearly inspired by a great admiration for its subject.--Joyce Carol Oates "The New York Times "

Meyers has looked hard at the raw materials of Conrad's life and has made the right connections. The resulting portrait is stunning and compelling.--Jay Parini, author of The Last Station "Los Angeles Times "

Extensive research, both anecdotal and archival, has resulted in a wealth of new information on Conrad's seafaring career, his marriage, his friendship with Ford Maddox Ford--even on the real-life model for Kurtz. Meyers always has an eye to how life experience colors the fiction. This is highly recommended.--Library Journal

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Meyers has looked hard at the raw materials of Conrad's life and has made the right connections. The resulting portrait is stunning and compelling.
— Jay Parini, author of The Last Station

Los Angeles Times

Shrewdly and sensitively written, and clearly inspired by a great admiration for its subject.
— Joyce Carol Oates

The New York Times

To his distinguished biogrpahies of Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence and others, Meyers now adds a study of the elusive author of Nostromo and Victor , and he comes up with all sorts of little-known or unpublished material. Meyers provides new insights into Conrad's troubled Polish childhood, his harsh 20 years as a seaman, his rash involvement in the Carlist wars, his marriage to a placid woman who was the perfect foil to his neurasthenic personality and his friendships with the likes of Madox Ford, Galsworthy, Stephen Crane and Henry James. In his role as passionate literary detective, Meyers finds real-life sources of lead characters in Heart of Darkness, Under Western Eyes and The Arrow of Gold (about the tempestuous American journalist, Jane Anderson, with whom Conrad had an affair). The author gives us a clear perspective on both the life (1857-1924) and achievements of a writer who, racked by gout, guilt and debt most of his life (his novels were more often praised than read), mastered a foreign language in middle age to become one of its greatest craftsmen. Photos. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

The prolific Meyers ( D.H. Lawrence, LJ 5/15/90) here offers the first major biography of Conrad since Frederick R. Karl's Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives ( LJ 12/1/78). Karl excels with the early years, Meyers with the later. Extensive research, both anecdotal and archival, has resulted in a wealth of new information on Conrad's seafaring career (including sample questions from the Master's exam), his marriage, his friendship with Ford--even on the real-life model for Kurtz. Possibly of most interest is extensive coverage of Conrad's affair with the wild and eccentric American journalist Jane Anderson, with an appendix dealing with Anderson's unusual life. Meyers always has an eye to how life experience colors the fiction, but not to the extent that the book will be accessible only to Conradians. This is highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/90.-- Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.

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