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Michael Meyer (1921-2000) was a translator, novelist, biographer, and playwright, best known for his translations of the works of Ibsen and Strindberg. His biography of Ibsen won the Whitbread Prize for Biography in 1971.
Giving the Devil His Due
Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama
by John Fuegi
Bertolt Brecht: Journals, 1934–1955
translated by Hugh Rorrison, edited by John Willett
After Brecht
by Janelle Reinelt
December 1, 1994 issue
The Magician
Images: My Life in Film
by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Marianne Ruuth
The Best Intentions
by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate
Sunday's Children
by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate
Ingmar Bergman: Film and Stage
by Robert Emmet Long
June 9, 1994 issue
The Richest Vagabond
Alfred Nobel: A Biography
by Kenne Fant, translated by Marianne Ruuth
January 13, 1994 issue
Danger: Thin Ice
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Hoeg, translated by Tiina Nunnally
November 18, 1993 issue
Broken Glass
Strindberg's Letters Vol. I: 1862–1892 Vol. II: 1892–1912
selected, edited, and translated by Michael Robinson
June 11, 1992 issue
Young Strindberg
The Son of a Servant
by August Strindberg, newly translated, with an Introduction and notes and Evert Sprinchorn
July 7, 1966 issue
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