Jeffrey Lewis

Jeffrey Lewis is the author of Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, Theme Song for an Old Show and Adam the King, four novels which comprise The Meritocracy Quartet, a sprawling yet intimate canvas of his post-war American generation across four decades to the millennium which is also available in an omnibus edition. Lewis is the author, as well, of Berlin Cantata, The Inquisitor's Diary, Bealport, and Land of Cockaigne; and his latest novel, Leonard Cohen, appeared recently. All his books have been well-received.

Before turning to fiction full-time, Lewis won two Emmys and the Writers’ Guild Award and many additional awards and nominations for his work as a writer and producer of the landmark television series Hill Street Blues. A graduate of Yale and the Harvard Law School, Lewis once worked as an assistant district attorney and criminal defense lawyer in Manhattan, where he also edited the underground magazine The Real World and worked for a time for Stan Lee and Marvel. He lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine with his wife, the artist Gayle Lewis.