Ved Mehta (1934–2021)
Autor/a de Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Ved Mehta
La Segunda Voz 1 exemplars
Daddyji [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2013] Ved Mehta 1 exemplars
Over God gesproken 1 exemplars
Teologi senza Dio 1 exemplars
Obres associades
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Col·laborador — 452 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1934-03-21
- Data de defunció
- 2021-01-09
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- India
USA (naturalized 1975) - Lloc de naixement
- Lahore, British India [now Pakistan]
- Lloc de defunció
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa de la mort
- Parkinson’s disease
- Educació
- Dadar School for the Blind, Bombay
Arkansas School for the Blind, Little Rock, Arkansas
Pomona College, California
University of Oxford (Balliol College)
Harvard University - Professions
- writer
- Organitzacions
- The New Yorker
- Premis i honors
- RSL (2009)
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 35
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 1,007
- Popularitat
- #25,604
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 11
- ISBN
- 97
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 6
"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.… (més)