Louis A. Meyer was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1942. He grew up on U.S. Army bases in Germany and the American east coast, attended high school in Pennsylvania and Florida, college in Florida from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Florida. He took graduate art courses at Columbia University in 1970 and received an MFA in Painting in 1973 at Boston University's Master of Fine Arts program. During the Vietnam War Meyer joined the U.S. Navy becoming an officer after four months. Assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet he saw no combat during his tour of duty.
Meyer currently lives in Corea, Maine and with his wife owns an an art gallery called Clair de Loon in Bar Harbor, where they sell matted and framed prints of his artwork. He is best known as the author of the Bloody Jack seafaring novels.
AOS Naval Fiction
** Books in the series which are not believed to be nautical
The author's official web site is jackyfaber.com