Michael J. Meyer
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Michael J. Meyer

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"Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet" author Michael Meyer took a wide route to the story, starting back in 1995, when he was sent to China as one of its first Peace Corps volunteers. His first book, the acclaimed "The Last Days of Old Beijing," resulted in a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction, followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship. His second book, "In Manchuria," won a Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book from the Society of American Travel Writers, as did the third book in his China trilogy, "The Road to Sleeping Dragon." Among other outlets, Meyer’s stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Slate, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Architectural Record, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Iowa Review, the Paris Review, and on National Public Radio’s This American Life. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award, the Berlin Prize, and residencies at MacDowell, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. Currently a Fulbright Scholar in Taipei and a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University's Centre for Life-Writing, Meyer is working on a biography of Taiwan. He is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaching nonfiction writing. He lives in Mr. Rogers' actual neighborhood, Squirrel Hill.
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    • In Manchuria

    • A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
    • By: Michael Meyer
    • Narrated by: George Backman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-15
    • Language: English
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