| 词条 | Ved Mehta |
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EducationHe was educated at Pomona College, at Balliol College, Oxford where he read Modern History, and at Harvard University, where he earned a double BA and MA.[4] While at Pomona, one of Mehta's student readers, because very few books were available in Braille at that time, was Eugene Rose, who went on to become the Russian Orthodox hieromonk Father Seraphim Rose. Mehta referred to him in two books, one of which was Stolen Light, his second book of memoirs: "I felt very lucky to have found Gene as a reader. ... He read with such clarity that I almost had the illusion that he was explaining things."[5][6] BiographyMehta has lived in the Western world since 1949; he became an American citizen in 1975. His first book, an autobiography called Face to Face, which placed his early life in the context of Indian politics and history and Anglo-Indian relations, was published in 1957.[3] Mehta published his first novel, Delinquent Chacha in 1966. It was serialized in the New Yorker.[7] Since then he has written more than 24 books, including several that deal with the subject of blindness, as well as hundreds of articles and short stories, for British, Indian and American publications. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1961 to 1994, during which time Spy magazine published a critical article about his misogynist attitude toward his assistants and writings that were frequently regarded as dull and self-indulgent.[8] He left the magazine after, as he has claimed, he was "terminated" by editor Tina Brown.[9] One of the articles he wrote for The New Yorker in 1961 consisted of interviews with famous Oxford philosophers. A volume of the letters of one of those philosophers, Isaiah Berlin, contains an honest response to Mehta's inquiry about the reactions of his subjects: "You ask me what the reactions of my colleagues are to your piece on Oxford Philosophy... [T]hose to whom I have spoken are in various degrees outraged or indignant ... The New Yorker is a satirical magazine, and I assume from the start that a satire was intended and not an accurate representation of the truth. In any case, only a serious student of philosophy could attempt to do that."[10] The article was published as a book, now including Oxford historians as well, Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (1962). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.[11] In 2014, during the annual Jaipur Literary Festival, Mehta said that living in India would never have been possible for him as he could not live in an "anarchy", but admitted that he keenly followed Indian political developments. Personal lifeHis wife, Linn Fenimore Cooper Mehta (née Cary), the daughter of William Lucius Cary and Katherine Lemoine Fenimore Cary (née Cooper), is a descendant of James Fenimore Cooper and niece of Mehta's former New Yorker colleague Henry Sage Fenimore Cooper, Jr.; they married in 1983.[1] Selected works
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References1. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/garden/at-home-with-ved-mehta-in-a-dark-harbor-a-bright-house.html|title=At Home With Ved Mehta: In a Dark Harbor, A Bright House|last=Leland|first=John|authorlink=John Leland (journalist) |date=22 May 2003|work=The New York Times|accessdate=15 February 2009}} 2. ^1 {{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/?id=aiYOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA304&dq=Ved+Mehta+-inauthor:%22Ved+Mehta%22#PPA312,M1 | title = Learning for All: Curricula for Diversity in Education | page = 312 |author1=Booth, Tony |author2=Swann, Will |author3=Masterton, Mary | publisher = Routledge | year = 1992 | isbn = 0-415-07184-4 }} 3. ^1 {{cite news|title=Seeking the Light|last=Kendrick|first=Baynard|date=25 August 1957|work=The New York Times|url=http://www.vedmehta.com/reviews/face-nytimes.htm}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/When-loss-isnt-less/538584/|title=When loss isn't' less|publisher=Financial Express|accessdate=8 November 2009}} 5. ^{{cite book | title = Stolen Light | page = 160 | author = Mehta, Ved | publisher = Townsend Press | year = 2008 | isbn = 1-59194-095-8 }} 6. ^{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/?id=tJbePAAACAAJ&dq=father+seraphim+rose+cathy+scott| title = Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters| page = |last=Scott |first=Cathy |authorlink=Cathy Scott | publisher = Regina Orthodox Press | year = 2002 | isbn = 1-928653-01-4 }} 7. ^"Ved Mehta" Current Biography 1975.The H.W Wilson Company. 1975.271. 8. ^{{cite journal|last=Conant|first=Jannett|title=Slaves of The New Yorker|journal=Spy Magazine|date=September 1989|pages=112|url=https://books.google.com/?id=MBsraeHJRB4C&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=spy+magazine+jonathan+schell#v=onepage&q=schell&f=false}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Writer Finds No Room at the Library|last=Kuczinski|first=Alex|date=11 January 1999|work=The New York Times|publisher=Proquest.com}} 10. ^Berlin, Isiah (2016) Building: Letters 1960 - 1975.Penguin Random House UK. p.77. 11. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|title = Royal Society of Literature All Fellows|publisher = Royal Society of Literature|accessdate = 10 August 2010|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows/M/656|archivedate = 5 March 2010|df = dmy-all}} External links
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