G. J. Meyer

{{Short description|Author and journalist}}

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Gerald J. Meyer (born 1940),{{Cite web|url=https://viaf.org/processed/LC%7Cn++95022543|title=LC|n 95022543|website=viaf.org|access-date=July 23, 2022|archive-date=July 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723011327/https://viaf.org/processed/LC%7Cn++95022543|url-status=live}} author and journalist, is a writer of historical non-fiction,{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n95022543|title=Meyer, G. J. 1940- [WorldCat.org]|website=www.worldcat.org|access-date=July 23, 2022|archive-date=July 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723011330/https://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n95022543|url-status=live}} a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow with an M.A. in English literature from the University of Minnesota. He holds a Harvard University's Nieman Fellowship in Journalism and has taught at colleges and universities in St. Louis, Des Moines, and New York.

Meyer's first book was The Memphis Murders, published in 1974 as Gerald Meyer. This received the Edgar Award for non-fiction. His next work was Executive Blues: Down and Out in Corporate America, which was largely a reaction to his being let go as a corporate public relations officer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/meyer-gj-1940-gerald-meyer|title=Meyer, G.J. 1940- (Gerald Meyer) | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=October 8, 2020|archive-date=November 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113212511/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/meyer-gj-1940-gerald-meyer|url-status=live}}

His works include The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/6405-g-j-meyer-misery-misrule-long-ago-england-history/|title=Misery and misrule in long-ago England|date=March 29, 2011|access-date=July 23, 2022|archive-date=July 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723011330/https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/6405-g-j-meyer-misery-misrule-long-ago-england-history/|url-status=live}} A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, The World Remade: Americans in World War I, Executive Blues: Down and Out in Corporate America and The Borgias: The Hidden History. His The Memphis Murders received an Edgar Award for non-fiction from the Mystery Writers of America. For a time Meyer lived in Wiltshire, England.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/g-j-meyer/|title=G.J. Meyer|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=July 23, 2022|archive-date=January 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107031330/https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/g-j-meyer/|url-status=live}} At other times he has lived in New York.