Jeffrey Lewis

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Jeffrey Lewis is author of The Meritocracy Quartet, published last month, and the forthcoming Berlin Canata, to be published in April 2012. Born in New York and educated at Yale, Jeffrey now lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine. His first title to be published by Haus Publishing, Adam the King, the last novel in his Meritocracy Quartet, which included the novels Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, and Theme Song for an Old Show.

A sequence of four novels that span four decades of American history, The Meritocracy Quartet echoes the work of F Scott Fitzgerald as Lewis examines the inner world of the East coast WASP aristocracy: ‘their studied vagueness, their heartiness, the aloofness that cannot be copied.’ (Los Angeles Times). Set in the money-mad ‘90s, Adam the King depicts the fallout from deepening class and social divisions in a voice that is ‘pitch-perfect… quirky, rueful and wise’ (Kirkus Reviews). The novel won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Literary Fiction in 2009, as well as the ForeWord Magazine Silver Award for Fiction in 2008.

Lewis has received a string of other awards for his writing, including the Independent Publishers Award for General Fiction for his first novel in the Quartet, Meritocracy: A Love Story in 2004, and two Emmys and the Writer’s Guild Award for his work as a writer and producer on Hill Street Blues.