Jeffrey Lewis

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Jeffrey Lewis, is author of the Meritocracy Quartet - to be published by Haus Publishing in 2010 and early 2011.

Jeffrey Lewis was born in New York, educated at Yale and now lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine. His first title to be published by Haus Publishing, Adam the King, is his fourth novel, and part of the Meritocracy Quartet which also includes Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, and Theme Song for an Old Show.

In March 2010 Jeffrey held three very succesful author talks in London, and he will return later this year, around the time of publication of his second book from Haus, Theme Song for an Old Show.

Jeffrey's Meritocracy Quartet is a sequence of four books that span four decades of American history. Echoing F Scott Fitzgerald, Lewis examines the inner world of the 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 Meritocracy 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.