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.
Books
The Long Ships
The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century, when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from Scandinavia through the Straits of Gibraltar to Byzantium in all its fabled splendor. “This extraordinary saga of epic adventure on land and sea…is a masterpiece of historical fiction.” —The New York Times