Ved Mehta (1934–2021)
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Ved Parkash Mehta was an America writer and journalist. He was born in Lahore, India on March 21, 1934. He went blind at the age of three. At 15, he came to the United States to attend a school for the blind in Arkansas. He later attended Pomona College in Southern California, graduating in 1956. mostra altro He earned a second bachelor's degree in modern history from Balliol College, Oxford. He received his master's degree from Harvard in 1961. He became a U. S. citizen in the 1975. He wrote numerous articles on life in 20th-century India. His first book was Face to Face (1957). But he was best-known work was a 12-volume memoir that also illuminated the history of India. They were collectively known as, Continents of Exile. The first volume was Daddyji (1972). The last book in the series, The Red Letters, was published in 2004. His other books included Walking the Indian Streets; The Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (1963); The New Theologian (1966); John is Easy to Please (1971); Delinquent Chacha (1967); and Remembering Mr. Shawn's New York: The Invisible Art of Editing (1998). He worked for more than thirty years at The New Yorker magazine. He was hired as a staff writer in 1961 and remained there until 1994. After leaving The New Yorker, he taught at Yale, Vassar, New York University, and elsewhere. He also continued to write. His work was critically acclaimed. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971 and 1977. In 1982, he received the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." In 2009, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was given an honorary degree from Pomona College, Bard College, Williams College, The University of Stirling, and Bowdoin College. Ved Mehta died at his home in Manhattan on January 9, 2021 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 452 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1934-03-21
- Data di morte
- 2021-01-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- India
USA (naturalized 1975) - Luogo di nascita
- Lahore, British India [now Pakistan]
- Luogo di morte
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- Parkinson’s disease
- Istruzione
- Dadar School for the Blind, Bombay
Arkansas School for the Blind, Little Rock, Arkansas
Pomona College, California
University of Oxford (Balliol College)
Harvard University - Attività lavorative
- writer
- Organizzazioni
- The New Yorker
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- RSL (2009)
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An insightful and somewhat entertaining narrative about one man's exploration into the philosophy of history, which he undertakes by interviewing early 20th century English philosophers and historians at Oxford and Cambridge.
A better description of this book can be found at:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19785518-fly-and-the-fly-bottle
A better description of this book can be found at:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19785518-fly-and-the-fly-bottle
Brilliant book. Blind indian's experiences at Oxford.
05 Jun 2009 - Hay-on-Wye Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye
Part of the Continents of Exile series of autobiographical writings by Mehta, here we find an unflinching memoir of his disastrous love affairs with four women, in almost excruciating detail. It's not something you find often in a memoir, but the long series allows him the room for this. We also get a large section about his subsequent psychoanalysis - frustratingly, I have yet to fill in the gap between this and his eventual happy marriage and family life.
I think this was in many respects one for the completist - it was a touch harrowing at times and the women's letters were reproduced (presumably with permission) which made it a very intimate read. Interesting though, as we very rarely get into the nuts and bolts of someone else's relationship.… (altro)
Part of the Continents of Exile series of autobiographical writings by Mehta, here we find an unflinching memoir of his disastrous love affairs with four women, in almost excruciating detail. It's not something you find often in a memoir, but the long series allows him the room for this. We also get a large section about his subsequent psychoanalysis - frustratingly, I have yet to fill in the gap between this and his eventual happy marriage and family life.
I think this was in many respects one for the completist - it was a touch harrowing at times and the women's letters were reproduced (presumably with permission) which made it a very intimate read. Interesting though, as we very rarely get into the nuts and bolts of someone else's relationship.… (altro)
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"I'll be happy if twelve people in the country read it," he said.
"You can't mean that," I said. "How could the magazine keep going if people didn't read it?"
"I want any piece to be read by its natural readers--people who will understand and enjoy it."
He went on to say that he edited the magazine as if we were the ideal readers, and assumed that if we liked a piece the readers would. It seemed such a utopian notion that I could scarcely believe he could hold it. But in subsequent years I learned that that was just one of a number of utopian ideas that he held and was somehow able to indulge while still turning out an extremely financially successful magazine.
Fantastic memoir by writer Ved Mehta of his relationship with William Shawn the editor of the New Yorker from 1952 to 1987.… (altro)