Jeffrey Meyers (born 1 April 1939 in New York City) is an American biographer and literary, art, and film critic.
He has won three Colorado Research Awards (two in 1976, one in 1988) and two Faculty Fellowships (1986 and 1991) as well as Huntington Library (1971), Fulbright (1978–79), ACLS (1983–84) and Guggenheim grants (1978–79).
As of 2018, Meyers has published 54 books and 980 articles on art, film, and modern American, English, and European literature.
He has been interviewed many times and has appeared in documentary films about Edgar Allan Poe,[4] Gary Cooper,[5] and Errol Flynn,[6] and BBC-TV programs on Hemingway[7] and D. H.
[40] In America, the poet James Dickey noted: "Meyers has given us an extremely valuable deepening of what is quite likely to prove Hemingway's greatest work, his life.
"[42] George Painter, the distinguished biographer of Marcel Proust, wrote: "I believe that Professor Meyers' Hemingway is one of the great biographies of our half-century, a masterwork in which true scholarship and creative art are so united as to become indistinguishable, and worthy to belong with Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, [Leslie] Marchand's Byron or Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey.