THE Jeffrey Meyers phenomenon is awe-inspiring. He has now published some 27 books, including important biographies, as well as bibliographical and editing projects. In the seminar I am now teaching on T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway at Dartmouth College, I require students to read one biography of each writer, among the choices being Jeffrey Meyers’s recent biography of Hemingway. Now we have from Meyers a good biography of Joseph Conrad. Of the enormous amount that has been written on Conrad, if I were to assign one book on the subject, this would be it. It is informative, lucid, entirely serviceable, and contains a small amount of material not previously known except among Conrad scholars.
Joseph Conrad: A Biography, by Jeffrey Meyers (Scribner’s, 428 pp., $27.50)
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