Nicholas E. Meyer

Nicholas E. Meyer is the author of the book 'Beyond the Gods—Facing life’s biggest questions, like the meaning of existence, without any supernatural support'. His previous non-fiction books include a history of world cinema and a biographical dictionary. A writer and journalist from Argentina, his articles and columns have been published in eight countries on five continents. He has also written a novel on Irish immigrant pioneers in Patagonia and a travel book on globetrotting to back-of-beyond places like Samarkand and Timbuktu; both unpublished. At one time or another he has been a screenwriter, schoolteacher, policeman (as an alternative to military conscription), travelling salesman, United Nations information officer, magazine editor, newspaper night editor, humour columnist, cartoonist, book and film critic, translator, and lecturer. In the field of linguistics, the following is a link to an article of his on a curiously unreported oddity of the English language, published in the journal 'Verbatim': http://www.verbatimmag.com/29_3.pdf (p. 8).